memoir
Americannoun
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a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
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Usually memoirs.
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an account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiography.
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the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society.
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a biography or biographical sketch.
noun
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a biography or historical account, esp one based on personal knowledge
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an essay or monograph, as on a specialized topic
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obsolete a memorandum
Other Word Forms
- memoirist noun
Etymology
Origin of memoir
First recorded in 1560–70; from French mémoire, from Latin memoria; memory
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday it was announced that Vance would be releasing “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism.
From Salon
But then love and marriage reared its head and Burden’s story took a dark turn, which she chronicles with a keen forensic eye in her buzzy new memoir, “Strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times
A welter of memoirs and biographies have traced their colorful lives as well as their relationships with one another and with their hot-tempered father, David.
“My deeper entry into the Getty world would rob me of my own hard-earned story,” the governor wrote in his recent memoir.
Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, “A Moveable Feast,” opens with him as a young man in 1920s Paris worrying about the cost of heating his apartment.
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