memoir

noun

mem·oir ˈmem-ˌwär

-ˌwȯr

Synonyms of memoir next

: an official note or report : memorandum

: 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

: autobiography

—usually used in plural

His memoirs recall his student days at Harvard.

: biography

his memoir of his longtime friend

: an account of something noteworthy : report

the work described and discussed in this memoir represent a first-class investigation—

J. A. Steers

memoirs plural : the record of the proceedings of a learned society

memoirist

ˈmem-ˌwär-ist

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noun

Examples of memoir in a Sentence

a retired politician who is writing his memoirs He has written a memoir of his mother. a memoir of Hollywood in the 1930s

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