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Webster 1913 Edition


Memoirs

{

Mem′oir

, or
pl.

Mem′oirs

}
,
Noun.
[F.
mémoire
, m., memorandum, fr.
mémoire
, f., memory, L.
memoria
. See
Memory
.]
1.
A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See
History
, 2.
2.
A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.
3.
An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

Definition 2024


memoirs

memoirs

English

Noun

memoirs

  1. plural of memoir
  2. (in the plural) an autobiography
    • I never finished reading the memoirs of Bill Clinton.

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