1
: an official note or report : memorandum
2 a
: a narrative composed from personal experience
- every memoir reminds us of the faraway and long ago, of loss and change, of persons and places beyond recall
- —Abigail McCarthy
b
: autobiography
—usually used in plural
- His memoirs recall his student days at Harvard.
c
: biography
- his memoir of his longtime friend
3 a
: an account of something noteworthy : report
- the work described and discussed in this memoir represent a first-class investigation
- —J. A. Steers
b
memoirs plural
: the record of the proceedings of a learned society
