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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
memorable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a memorable moment
▪ There have been many memorable moments in this year’s Olymics.
a memorable performance (=good and easy to remember)
▪ There were memorable performances from Madonna and U2.
a memorable phrase
▪ Who was it who used that memorable phrase "a monumental error of judgement"?
catchy/memorable (=one that is easy to remember)
▪ His songs have simple words and catchy tunes.
memorable/unforgettable (=a good experience that you will remember for a long time)
▪ Meeting the queen was a memorable experience.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Of my seven healers, three, two at the Centre and one at home stand out as memorable.
▪ After all, anybody can write a blues song, but few can write one as memorable as this.
▪ Shall we nail our flags to the mast, and make what remains of it just as memorable?
▪ Laura is destined to become as memorable as Madame Bovary or-a character she meets in the novel-Frida Kahlo.
more
▪ One possibility is that certain junctions are both intrinsically more memorable and more risky than others.
▪ But the action developing on the streets was making him more memorable as a head breaker than as a king maker.
▪ Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough, more memorable.
▪ And when you think about it, commercials often are more memorable than the series they interrupt.
▪ Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared.
▪ We all quote more memorable examples.
▪ Has it made the ideas more memorable?
▪ It also adds an air mystery that makes you more memorable.
most
▪ What happened Saturday night might have been the most memorable post-victory celebration in the history of the World Series.
▪ Perhaps most memorable was a which left me feeling as no other opera performance had ever done before.
▪ All were greeted by a splendid reflecting pool, the centerpiece around which many of the most memorable buildings were grouped.
▪ Perhaps my most memorable day occurred with Paul on our ascent of Kichik Kumdan.
▪ Perhaps his wedding in the big church next to the Waldorf-Astoria is the most memorable.
▪ As are Nelson and Hennigan, even if the most memorable scene will always remain their naked basketball game.
particularly
▪ The free ranging lemurs are particularly memorable.
▪ It lasted only about 60 seconds, and perhaps it doesn't sound like a particularly memorable sighting.
▪ It was a particularly memorable night for Frank Thurmond.
so
▪ The resulting chaos was so memorable that I've never dared take a holiday during a conference again!
▪ Samantha typifies why the Bronx Zoo is so memorable and fun.
▪ It is Bassani's unique gift that their familiar ordinariness should make them, often frighteningly, so memorable.
▪ The latter are shapes so memorable that knowing they exist matters more than actually seeing them.
truly
▪ The playing is truly memorable, the recording faithful.
▪ Rebecca also gives us Manderley, the first house to become a truly memorable character in a gothic novel.
▪ The atmosphere, beautiful surroundings and music will create a truly memorable occasion.
▪ Now those pears made a truly memorable tart.
■ NOUN
day
▪ Two very interesting and memorable days followed.
▪ The goal is to give you the most memorable day, the best day for you that is possible.
▪ Perhaps my most memorable day occurred with Paul on our ascent of Kichik Kumdan.
▪ From Ottawa we spent a memorable day in Prescott where the club was celebrating its centenary.
▪ One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball.
▪ This proved to be an enjoyable and memorable day.
▪ We cooled off on our way back to camp with a swim in a roadside lake; a memorable day.
experience
▪ For non-troglodytes, with a penchant for the unusual, the trip can provide a memorable experience.
▪ Rooms are beautifully furnished, and a stay at this hotel is nothing short of a memorable experience.
▪ That bath was one of the more memorable experiences of my life.
▪ It was a memorable experience for all of us.
▪ On the whole for some one who takes some interest in serious music it was a worthwhile and memorable experience.
▪ However, those privileged to make the journey to Cape Wrath can be sure of a memorable experience.
▪ Your visit to the West Bank of the Nile will be a memorable experience.
▪ The end of a memorable experience for Elizabeth, Natalie and Diane.
moment
▪ That was one of the most memorable moments of all my award activities!
▪ Some memorable moments also have come during the singing of the national anthem.
▪ There was one memorable moment during Needham's canvassing in Chippenham last week.
▪ Now, Mutola and Quirot are expected to provide some of the Games' most memorable moments on the track.
▪ Simon Garrett has compiled our look back at the most memorable moments of nineteen ninety two.
▪ Although these last are not major works, each has some major minor memorable moments.
▪ It was a memorable moment for the team, the third successive one-two achieved at the Circuit de Catalunya by the partnership.
▪ The landing was one of the more memorable moments of my life.
night
▪ It was a memorable night of riotous jollity.
▪ All in all, a memorable night.
▪ There followed the strangest and most memorable night watch of my seagoing experience.
▪ On another memorable night, coming home in a thick fog Jimmy got us completely lost.
▪ It was still a memorable night for Gloucester.
occasion
▪ For they were all there, as on the memorable occasions in the past.
▪ On one memorable occasion I worked twenty-seven days straight without a day off-it was memorable only because it was insane.
▪ On one memorable occasion, she thinks to communicate her feelings about Catholic beliefs to some of her older pupils.
▪ Children's Bowling Parties: Birthday cakes, balloons, badges and bowling all added together to make a memorable occasion.
▪ The atmosphere, beautiful surroundings and music will create a truly memorable occasion.
▪ Whether there is a special attraction or not a visit to the Bluebell is a memorable occasion.
▪ Altogether, an enjoyable and memorable occasion to reflect on the highlights of your day.
▪ The most memorable occasions are often the ones you didn't plan.
performance
▪ Both were to exercise their joint theory in memorable performances.
phrase
▪ It is, in a memorable phrase from the 1930s, a faraway country of which we know little.
▪ It is what Freud called in a memorable phrase, an impoverishment of the ego on a grand scale.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ One memorable afternoon, we visited a Shinto shrine.
▪ The story was memorable because, as far as I recall, it was the only book in the school library that even mentioned a black person.
▪ The Tyson-Douglas fight was one of the most memorable events in boxing history.
▪ What's your most memorable moment from your years on the stage?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dickens' characters are very vivid and memorable.
▪ For Clarissa Grey, the summer had been memorable because she had been consistently happy.
▪ Great inaugural speeches generally have one memorable sound bite.
▪ Hooke had already made several memorable names for himself in science.
▪ It is Bassani's unique gift that their familiar ordinariness should make them, often frighteningly, so memorable.
▪ It was a memorable night of riotous jollity.
▪ Kirk Gibson hit a memorable World Series home run despite an injured leg, but he was only pinch-hitting.
▪ The resulting chaos was so memorable that I've never dared take a holiday during a conference again!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Memorable

Memorable \Mem"o*ra*ble\, a. [L. memorabilis, fr. memorare to bring to remembrance, fr. memor mindful, remembering. See Memory, and cf. Memorabilia.] Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable. -- Mem"o*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv.

Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds.
--Sir J. Davies.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
memorable

mid-15c., from Middle French mémorable, from Latin memorabilis "that may be told; worthy of being remembered, remarkable," from memorare "to bring to mind," from memor "mindful of" (see memory). Related: Memorably.

Wiktionary
memorable

a. Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

WordNet
memorable

adj. worth remembering

Usage examples of "memorable".

They appeal with confidence to the Persian history of Sherefeddin Ali, which has been given to our curiosity in a French version, and from which I shall collect and abridge a more specious narrative of this memorable transaction.

From the twenty-sixth of August to the second of September, that is from the battle of Borodino to the entry of the French into Moscow, during the whole of that agitating, memorable week, there had been the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in spring, when everything shines so brightly in the rare clear atmosphere that the eyes smart, when the lungs are strengthened and refreshed by inhaling the aromatic autumn air, when even the nights are warm, and when in those dark warm nights, golden stars startle and delight us continually by falling from the sky.

Irish corporal, anent which I have treated at large in the memorables of the year 1774.

In these memorable crusades, a fleet and army of French and Venetians were diverted from Syria to the Thracian Bosphorus: they assaulted the capital, they subverted the Greek monarchy: and a dynasty of Latin princes was seated near threescore years on the throne of Constantine.

The memorable benefaction of the year 508, which was a famine reinforced by a pestilence, swept away sixteen hundred millions of people in nine months.

Roger knocked out his pipe, turned Bock out of his chair, and sat down with infinite relish to read the memorable character sketch of Christopher, the head waiter, which is dear to every lover of taverns.

At Eger they had a memorable dinner, with so much leisure for it that they could form a life-long friendship for the old English-speaking waiter who served them, and would not suffer them to hurry themselves.

Hibernia, and maid of honour to her majesty, the facetious Mother Butler--the ever-constant supporter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, esquire, and a leading feature in all the memorable Westminster elections of the last fifty years.

On this memorable occasion, Sidonius, whose early ambition had been so fatally blasted, appeared as the orator of Auvergne, among the provincial deputies who addressed the throne with congratulations or complaints.

We of Gola were unwarned until the two cylinders hung directly above Tola, the greatest city of that time, which still lies in its ruins since that memorable day.

Because his looks also made him memorable, Goss had to be doubly alert, doubly agile in eluding suspicion.

Look how the liberal and transfiguring air Washes this inn of memorable meetings, This centre of ravishments and gracious greetings, Till, through its jocund loveliness of length A tidal-race of lust from shore to shore, A brimming reach of beauty met with strength, It shines and sounds like some miraculous dream, Some vision multitudinous and agleam, Of happiness as it shall be evermore!

Constantius, where the standard of the labarum is accompanied with these memorable words, By this Sign Thou Shalt Conquer.

Big front-page photos of the launderette, with the sprawled dead men and blood splashed everywhere, had made a memorable impression upon the newspaper-reading public.

Harvard Yard, or along the banks of the Charles River-- became strange and rare and memorable, and for this reason Frank, in spite of the corrupt and rotten spot which would develop in his character and eventually destroy him, was one of the rarest and highest people that ever lived, and could never be forgotten by anyone who had ever known him and been his friend.