Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Objects valued for their connection with historical events, culture, or entertainment.
- noun plural Events or experiences worthy of remembrance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record.
- Things that serve to recall something to memory; things associated with some person, place, or thing that is held in remembrance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
- noun plural Mementos of past events; souvenirs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Objects that are
connected to orremind their owner of pastevents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a record of things worth remembering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Are you a big fan of the cult sci-fi film, Time Bandits, but find memorabilia from the film sorely lacking?
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I kept a few of my disks and put them in memorabilia box that I have a bunch of other highschool stuff in, the big binder itself with the other cds/burnt disks went into the garbage. comparanoid
Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010
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Meanwhile, interesting Admiral Lord N elson memorabilia is coming up.
A Home and Its Love Story Margaret Studer 2010
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And Coraline movie memorabilia is being auctioned off on eBay to benefit the Starlight Children's Foundation.
July 2009 2009
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In 1959, she won the city's "Miss Subways" pageant, and all of the family's restaurants have since been decorated with posters and memorabilia from the Miss Subways contests.
Saluting a Maker of Local Landmarks Will Friedwald 2010
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SIEGEL: Somewhere in my house, in a box of childhood memorabilia, is a small button that I received in the second grade.
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Some Lennon memorabilia is for sale through the Gotta Have It!
John Lennon at 70: His pop culture legacy Sarah Anne Hughes 2010
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He did mention that if there was any memorabilia from the game I might want, to give him my address and he'd see what he could do.
Wherein A Few Kind Words Lead To Swag suphaltus 2009
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SIEGEL: Somewhere in my house, in a box of childhood memorabilia, is a small button that I received in the second grade.
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And Coraline movie memorabilia is being auctioned off on eBay to benefit the Starlight Children's Foundation.
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