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memento
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A memento of your visit may be purchased in the small showroom. ▪ A small lunchtime party was held for the entire staff, at which commemorative mementos were distributed. ▪ Alistair kept the bill, as a memento . ▪ At sunrise ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reminder of past events [syn: souvenir ] [also: mementoes (pl)]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "Psalm cxxxi in the Canon of the Mass" (which begins with the Latin word Memento and in which the dead are commemorated), from Latin memento "remember," imperative of meminisse "to remember, recollect, think of, bear in mind," a reduplicated form, ...
Usage examples of memento.
Time chafe away the memento mori quality that the ruins first seem to spell, acting as a temporal entasis and in the eye of the beholding.
I gave the consul the gold snuff-box with which the Elector of Cologne had presented me, keeping the portrait as a memento.
Did they have any shirts with pictures of Adrian Marcato and his mementos of Satan?
They had moved through the old abandoned winter quarters of the rebels, and some had slipped out of line, an opportunity to perhaps find something, a memento, some piece of treasure.
Ogilvies and the Fugtrees can leave the town of Pickax some useful memento of their visit here.
The lower jaw, perhaps due to some error in taxidermic technique, had gradually pulled away from the face as the unwholesome memento dried out, finally leaving the effigy frozen forever in a stressful but inaudible scream.
So the things were both uneatable and unhatchable, and they were too unwieldy for me to carry one off for a memento.
In the end, she had finished as the fifth-place woman, pocketing five hundred dollars and keeping her four Popsicle sticks as a memento.
Travelers placed offerings of food, wine, a coin, or some personal memento at the base as they recited prayers for a safe journey.
The second, a cruel cut, left a reddening lash-line exactly an inch below the fierce memento of the first.
But all societies, all civilizations, all aspirations it seems must fail the unremitting tugs of shroudy time, finally, leaving only little bones, fossils, a shoe turned to stone maybe, a bone button in the sea perhaps, a jeweled memento of an old old love.
I trust some friend will photograph or stereograph this fence for me, to go with the view of the spires of Frederick, already referred to, as mementos of my journey.
Straif had harvested three grychomp teeth as mementos and given one each to Winterberry and Antenn.
Along the walls were mementos of the Archerfish--her christening ceremony, plaques, photographs, and even some items from her WWII namesake, the SS-311 Archerfish, a Balao-class diesel-electric sub.
When Rufous and the other bulls gathered about him to smell whatever mementos there were of the disaster, they could tell that the blood on his right horn was not his.