memoir
memoir
nounDefinition of MEMOIR
a history of a person's life <the ex-president has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight>
Related Words autobiography; hagiography; psychobiography; pathography, tell-all; chronicle, history, past, story; obituary; character sketch, profile
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