Definition of memoir
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
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