memoir
memoir
Definition
mem·oir (mem′wär′, -wôr′)
noun
- a biography, usually one written by someone who knew the subject well
- an autobiography, esp. one that is objective and anecdotal in emphasis rather than inward and subjective
- a report or record of important events based on the writer's personal knowledge
- a report or record of a scholarly investigation, scientific study, etc.
- the record of the proceedings of a learned society
Etymology: Fr mémoire, masc., a memorandum, memoir, fem., memory < L memoria, memory
memoir
Synonyms
memoir
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- Mrs: Recorded memoirs of Mrs D J Williams, concerning her political career, which began in Scotland.
- survey: Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 62.
Converse of object
- bestsel: His dark, bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential is being made into a film starring Brad Pitt.
- publish: I had his memoirs published about three years ago.
- entitle: Sir Robert Kidd 1 floppy disk containing a short memoir entitled Memories of NUU written by Sir Robert for the Archive.
- write: In 1937 Fox had written a memoir of his early years entitled Smokey Crusade.
- read: A glimpse of pre-Victorian Wimborne Roger Guttridge has been reading the memoirs of James Druitt by Roger Guttridge on Dec 04.
- move: In a moving memoir, she tells of her long struggle to overcome the ' black dog ' .
Adjective modifier
- recorded: Recorded memoirs of Glyn Williams, formerly South Wales.
- unpublished: Below is Chapter 14 from " Through the Hawse Pipe " which are the unpublished memoirs of Captain Alexander Grant CBE DSC.
- poignant: More than 50 years later she went there to see his grave and wrote a poignant memoir of their lost life together.
- biographical: Frances was regarded as a model minister's wife and as such was the subject of biographical memoirs after her death.
- fictional: People who learn from history won't be so shocked by James Frey and his fictional memoir, A Million Little Lies.
- acclaimed: Richard Benson's acclaimed memoir, The Farm, will be discussed on the show on Wednesday 1st February.
Noun used with modifier
- aide: Pensions A day tax guidance New An aide memoir to the new pension tax regime from 2006.
- cakespart: For cakespart memoir for almost a month because phosphorescence lasted.
- childhood: There are child-abuse memoirs, eating-disorder memoirs, and, of course, the miserable Irish childhood memoir.
- prison: I found the quote in a very unlikely source â the prison memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitlerâs Minister of Armaments.
- war: He published his war memoirs, Bomber Command, in 1947.
- family: Her family memoir Losing the Dead, is available from Vintage.
memoir Quotes
Allm a« hlich hat sich mir herausgestellt, was jede groÞe Philosophie bisher war: n a« mlich das Selbstbekenntnis ihres Urhebers und eineArt ungewollter und unvermerkter me¤ moires. It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy has hitherto been: a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntaryand unconscious memoir.
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