Memorial
[mə'mɔːrɪəl] or [mə'morɪəl]
Definition
(noun.) a structure erected to commemorate persons or events.
(noun.) a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority.
(noun.) a recognition of meritorious service.
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Definition
(a.) Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
(a.) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
(n.) Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
(n.) A memorandum; a record.
(n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.
(n.) Memory; remembrance.
(n.) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Monument, commemorative record.
a. Commemorative.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Monument, record, memento, celebration, remembrance, relic, inscription
ANT:Obliviation, silentiation, obliteration, effacement, erasure
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a memorial, signifies there will be occasion for you to show patient kindness, as trouble and sickness threatens your relatives.
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Examples
- I am aware of that; and that's the reason why I insist upon it, that there shan't be a word about it in his Memorial. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In the debates to which this memorial gave rise, several attempts were made to justify the trade. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She wrote out his numerous memorials, letters, prospectuses, and projects. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The neighbourhood of Stamford, on the Derwent, contains some memorials of the battle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A man with only a portmanteau for his stowage must keep his memorials in his head. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From her husband on her birthday”--and very gratifying to the feelings such memorials are--to correspond exactly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Other members of the party left similar memorials, which under the circumstances have come to be greatly prized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a toy horse and wagon, a top, a ball,--memorials gathered with many a tear and many a heart-break! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Turning one over after another, and musing over these memorials, the unhappy man passed many hours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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