as in reminder
something that serves to keep alive the memory of a person or event
saved the tassel from her mortarboard as a keepsake of her high school graduation
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Recent Examples of keepsake
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Nhat V. Meyer, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
Travis Kelce proceeded to hug Pinto and then chugged a beer onstage before receiving the keepsake.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
Ed Gein confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was accused of digging up corpses and making keepsakes out of human body parts, with his crimes serving as the inspiration for Hollywood horror movies like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 27 Aug. 2025
Lunardelli salvages them and transforms them into beautiful objects—keepsake souvenirs that are unlike anything else in Venice.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
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Nhat V. Meyer, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
Travis Kelce proceeded to hug Pinto and then chugged a beer onstage before receiving the keepsake.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
Ed Gein confessed to killing two women in the 1950s and was accused of digging up corpses and making keepsakes out of human body parts, with his crimes serving as the inspiration for Hollywood horror movies like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 27 Aug. 2025
Lunardelli salvages them and transforms them into beautiful objects—keepsake souvenirs that are unlike anything else in Venice.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for keepsake
Noun
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Some buildings downtown offer harrowing reminders of this dark history.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Tanks rumbled through Tiananmen Square, a location that offered a stark reminder of how authoritarian states can violently crush democratic movements.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those posts have now turned into memorials, with fans flooding the comments to express their grief.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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On August 21, locals discovered that the state of Florida had painted over the memorial overnight and began to restore it themselves with chalk.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Parker Ashton-Youngs Longmont, CO Parker bought these earrings at the base of Kilimanjaro, proving that adventure souvenirs always make for stellar accessories.—
Matt Nager,
Outside,
1 Sep. 2025
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Buy a meaningful souvenir at Missions Pottery, where each piece is handcrafted by a local artisan, or Pig City Books, an independent bookstore with an expansive but well-curated selection.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Keepsake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/keepsake. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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