memorial
IPA: mʌmˈɔriʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) Memory; recollection.
- Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
- A chronicle or memoir.
- (now rare) A note or memorandum.
- (chiefly Christianity) A service of remembrance or commemoration.
- (law) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
adjective
- Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
- Contained in the memory.
- (now rare) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
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Examples of "memorial" in Sentences
- All the names are memorializing.
- The rector blessed the memorial.
- The heart of the memorial is a rotunda.
- The gravestone there is the only memorial to this event.
- The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque.
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