About The Word Memorial
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Memorial
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What's The Definition Of Memorial?
[n] a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
[n] a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority [n] a recognition of meritorious service Synonyms | Synonyms for Memorial: commemoration | monument | remembrance Related Terms | Find terms related to Memorial: account | adventures | adversaria | aide-memoire | annals | annotation | arch | autobiography | barrow | biographical sketch | biography | boundary stone | brass | bust | cairn | case history | catalog | celebrating | celebrative | cenotaph | chronicle | chronicles | chronology | Clio | column | commemorating | commemoration | commemorative | confessions | correspondence | cromlech | cross | cup | curriculum vitae | cyclolith | diary | docket | documentation | dolmen | entry | experiences | favor | footnote | footstone | fortunes | grave | gravestone | hagiography | hagiology | headstone | historiography | history | hoarstone | inscription | inventory | item | jotting | journal | keepsake | legend | letters | life | life and letters | life story | list | marginal note | marginalia | marker | martyrology | mausoleum | megalith | memento | memento mori | memo | memoir | memoirs | memorabilia | memorandum | memorial arch | memorial column | memorial statue | memorial stone | memorials | memories | menhir | minutes | monolith | monument | mound | Muse of history | necrology | notation | note | obelisk | obituary | photobiography | pillar | pipe roll | plaque | prize | profile | pyramid | record | recording | register | registry | relic | reliquary | remains | remembrance | remembrancer | reminder | resume | ribbon | roll | rolls | roster | rostral column | rota | scholia | scholium | scroll | shaft | shrine | solemn | souvenir | statue | stela | stone | story | stupa | table | tablet | testimonial | theory of history | token | token of remembrance | tomb | tombstone | tope | trace | trophy | vestige See Also | brass | cenotaph | construction | content | credit | epitaph | gravestone | headstone | Lincoln Memorial | megalith | megalithic structure | memorial tablet | message | national monument | pantheon | plaque | pyramid | recognition | Statue of Liberty | structure | subject matter | substance | tombstone | triumphal arch | Washington Monument Memorial In Webster's Dictionary \Me*mo"ri*al\, a. [F. m['e]morial, L. memorialis, fr.
memoria. See {Memory}.]
1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a
memorial building.
There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the
smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. --Pope.
2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be
expressed by the memorial word ASH. --Skeat.
{Memorial Day}. Same as {Decoration Day}. [U.S.]
\Me*mo"ri*al\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]morial.] 1. Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument. --Macaulay. Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. --Hooker. 2. A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] --Hayward. 3. 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. 4. Memory; remembrance. [Obs.] Precious is the memorial of the just. --Evelyn. 5. (Diplomacy) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation. |
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