About The Word Memoir
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Memoir
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What's The Definition Of Memoir?
[n] an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic
[n] an account of the author's personal experiences Synonyms | Synonyms for Memoir: Related Terms | Find terms related to Memoir: account | accounts | adventures | adversaria | aide-memoire | anecdote | annals | annotation | article | autobiography | biographical sketch | biography | case history | causerie | chronicle | chronicles | chronology | Clio | commitment to memory | confessions | curriculum vitae | descant | diary | discourse | discussion | disquisition | dissertation | docket | entry | essay | etude | examination | excursus | exercise of memory | experiences | exposition | feature | first approach | flashback | footnote | fortunes | hagiography | hagiology | hindsight | historiography | history | homily | introductory study | item | jotting | journal | learning by heart | legend | letters | life | life and letters | life story | looking back | lucubration | marginal note | marginalia | martyrology | memo | memoirs | memorabilia | memorandum | memorial | memorials | memories | memorization | memorizing | memory | minutes | monograph | morceau | Muse of history | narrative | necrology | notation | note | obituary | outline | pandect | paper | paragraph | photobiography | piece | preliminary study | profile | prolegomenon | recall | recalling | recollecting | recollection | reconsideration | record | records | reflection | register | registry | remembering | remembrance | reminder | reminiscence | report | reportage | research paper | resume | retrospect | retrospection | review | rote | rote memory | scholia | scholium | screed | sketch | special article | story | study | survey | term paper | theme | theory of history | thesis | tract | tractate | treatise | treatment See Also | autobiography | essay Memoir In Webster's Dictionary \Mem"oir\, or pl. Memoirs \Mem"oirs\, n. [F. m['e]moire,
m., memorandum, fr. m['e]moire, f., memory, L. memoria. See
{Memory}.]
1. A memorial account; a history composed from personal
experience and memory; an account of transactions or
events (usually written in familiar style) as they are
remembered by the writer. See {History}, 2.
2. A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a
biography written without special regard to method and
completeness.
3. An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a
record of investigations of any subject; the journals and
proceedings of a society.
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