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memorial

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n. a recognition of meritorious service [syn: commemoration , remembrance ] a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn: monument ]

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A memorial is an object served as a memory of something. Memorial may also refer to: Memorial Park (disambiguation) War memorial , an edifice to commemorate those who died, or were injured, in war Online memorial , an internet site set up to remember a ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a memorial fund (= for remembering the life of someone who has died ) ▪ The work is being paid for out of the memorial fund launched after Morris’s death. Memorial Day war memorial COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ...

Usage examples of memorial.

These being considered, the house ordered the lords of the admiralty to produce the other memorials of the same kind which they had received, that they might be laid before the congress at Soissons: then they addressed his majesty for copies of all the letters and instructions which had been sent to admiral Hosier, and those who succeeded him in the command of the West-India squadron.

But the most important step which his Prussian majesty took in his own justification, was that of publishing another memorial, specifying the conduct of the courts of Vienna and Saxony, and their dangerous designs against his person and interest, together with the original documents adduced as proofs of these sinister intentions.

It was pledged to my grandfather for two hundred crowns by a knight of Malta, who soon after perished in a sea engagement with the enemies of our faith, so that it became the property of our house, and was bequeathed to me by the old gentleman, as a memorial of his particular affection.

After supper, I drew a most affecting picture of my position, shewing that I should be in need of everything until my arrival at Rome, where I was going, I said, to fill the post of secretary of memorials, and my astonishment may be imagined when I saw the blockhead delighted at the recital of my misfortunes.

The Coochie Pembroke Memorial Challenge Trophy might achieve world-wide stature in competition or tarnish un-presented in an attic: with Malcolm it was always a toss-up.

Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.

The exertions of the opposition, however, were warmly supported by a large majority of the liverymen of London, who busied themselves in getting up memorials and remonstrances, and hence they were nothing daunted by their repeated defeats.

He and Dumbledore were now standing in what appeared to be a deserted village square, in the center of which stood an old war memorial and a few benches.

East India captains had offered as much as a hundred guineas for a single plate, in order to preserve a memorial of him, he determined that what was sold should be broken up, the arms erased, and no trace left which could show that they had ever been his.

No memorial service, send donations to the Daniel Waters KOMA memorial Scholarship Fund etcetera etcetera drek etcetera.

Laura Gaskin, of Central Adult Services in the Pack Memorial Library, furnished me with the names of those who might help in my search and provided me with numerous copies of articles about the area.

I felt grateful to Eleanore for her kindness to us, and I had resolved to leave her some memorial of me.

Hagen, the whole skull is dug up and separated from the corpse after the lapse of about a year, but only the lower jawbone is carefully kept by the nearest kinsman as a memorial of the deceased.

The other day the Mint Julep Veterans of Kentucky held a memorial day here, and Mr.

Latour-Foissac had no sooner returned to France than he published a justificatory memorial, in which he showed the impossibility of his having made a longer defence when he was in want of many objects of the first necessity.