Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something that one keeps because of the memories it calls to mind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship. The word was used as the title of some of the holiday gift-books formerly published annually. See
annual , n., 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Some object
given by a person andretained inmemory of something or someone; something kept forsentimental ornostalgic reasons. - noun historical Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something of sentimental value
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why does he need an afterthought keepsake from the airline disaster?
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: Hands out hot white chocolate in keepsake mugs with rabid wolf logo on side:
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The word keepsake recalled the box to her mind, and all the train of ideas which the Flora had banished.
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She said selling the keepsake was an "enormous decision," but she made a single copy and has no regrets.
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Auctioneer Philip Weiss believes the keepsake will be a high-demand item due to an increased interest in the Thriller singer since his death last June.
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When I was a pre-teen kid, my grandmothers really turned me on to the notion of keepsake boxes.
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When I was a pre-teen kid, my grandmothers really turned me on to the notion of keepsake boxes.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that women should be discouraged from having so many so-called keepsake ultrasounds.
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Immortalizing your newborn baby's footprint in bronze as a keepsake might be a long-cherished tradition, but another kind of imprint has become much more popular -- the digital kind.
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DETROIT - The last North Carolinian to climb the ladder Monday night and clip a piece of the championship net for a keepsake was the head basketball coach,
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