Souvenir
[,suːvə'nɪə] or [,suvə'nɪr]
Definition
(n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Remembrancer, memento.
Editor: Samantha
Definition
n. a remembrancer a keepsake.—n. Souv′enance (Spens.) remembrance memory.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hence the pictures and postal cards sold largely to souvenir-hunters as the Port Huron home do not actually show that in or around which the events now referred to took place. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Hilda