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Synonyms for memoir

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mem-wahr, -wawr
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr

Top 10 synonyms for memoir
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Définition of memoir

Origin :
  • early 15c., "written record," from Anglo-French memorie "note, memorandum, something written to be kept in mind" (early 15c., Old French memoire), from Latin memoria (see memory). Meaning "person's written account of his life" is from 1670s.
  • noun record of experiences
Example sentences :
  • Some day I hope there may be a Memoir of him; for none has yet appeared.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • From time to time he sent a memoir to the Academie des Sciences at Paris.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Many of these are recounted in a later portion of this memoir.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • Then, why did you not address a memoir to that effect to the Minister?'
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • In the Memoir this action is by mistake attributed to the Count.
  • Extract from : « Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters » by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • The pieces that follow are reprints, and have been already mentioned in this Memoir.
  • Extract from : « Spare Hours » by John Brown
  • When shall I see a memoir on Insular floras, and on the Pacific?
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin » by Charles Darwin
  • I hope that the Smithsonian Institution will publish your memoir.
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin » by Charles Darwin
  • I think you might write a memoir on fresh-water productions.
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin » by Charles Darwin
  • He also wrote a memoir of his father, privately printed at Oxford in 1883.
  • Extract from : « A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) » by Augustus de Morgan

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