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memorial Definition

me·mo·rial (mə môrē əl)

adjective

  1. serving to help people remember some person or event; commemorative
  2. of memory

Etymology: OFr < L memorialis < memoria, memory

noun

  1. anything made or done in memory of some person or event, as a monument, trust fund, holiday, charitable donation, etc.
  2. an informal diplomatic paper
  3. a statement of facts, often with a petition that something be done, sent to a governing body, official, etc.

memorial Related Forms
me·mo·ri·ally adverb
memorial Synonyms

memorial

modif.

dedicatory, commemorative, remembering, consecrating, canonizing, enshrining, memorializing, deifying, in tribute.

memorial Synonyms

memorial

n.

memorial Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • erect: Does anyone have photo of the memorial erected in their memory?
  • unveil: The Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Dyson, unveiled the memorial, slightly later than planned, in February 1927.

Preposition: on

  • grave: Memorials on graves, as we would understand them now, became popular after the Restoration in the 17th Century.

Adjective modifier

  • 19thc: South wall: two windows; one 18th and two 19thC wall memorials.
  • 20thc: South wall:- one splayed window with stained glass and a number of 19thC and 20thC memorials in stone and marble; one brass.
  • everlasting: Improve your knowledge and help make the Fepow Story an everlasting memorial to their memory.
  • lasting: Char's Fund will be the means by which we will build a lasting memorial to our daughter.
  • 18thc: Apart from some 18thC memorials there are no features of pre-19thC interest internally.
  • ww1: He died at the age of 28 and his name is on the St Michael's WW1 memorial.

Modifies a noun

  • plaque: On the church wall is a memorial plaque to the crew of a Greek ship lost in a storm in the twenties.
  • tablet: North wall: a marble memorial tablet of 1918 to the east of the window.
  • mason: Your memorial mason should be able to offer you further advice.
  • inscription: Skilled craftsmen and women execute the memorial inscriptions by hand.
  • stone: Firstly, the memorial stone next to the entrance of the bunker.
  • bench: Click on the thumbnail to see the memorial bench at Phil's old primary school.

Noun used with modifier

  • marble: North wall: a marble memorial tablet of 1918 to the east of the window.
  • war: We plan to relocate the war memorial in front of the new building.
  • granite: A granite memorial to these groups stands at the end of the former main runway.
  • roadside: With the passing of seven decades, the roadside memorial made of stone quarried at Verdun, had developed a dangerous list.
  • churchyard: It contains a good range of 18thC and even earlier churchyard memorials and a 17thC lychgate.
memorial Quotes

A sonnet is a moment's monument,ö Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.

—Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Exegi monumentum, aere perennius. I have completed a memorial more lasting than bronze.

—Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

—Pericles

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