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Definition of memoir noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

memoir

noun
 
 
/ˈmemwɑː(r)/
 
/ˈmemwɑːr/
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  1.  
    memoirs
    [plural] an account written by somebody, especially somebody famous, about their life and experiences
    • O'Connor published a childhood memoir.
    Extra Examples
    • He has published a long memoir about those years.
    • She describes in her memoirs how she coped with her mother's death.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • personal
    • childhood
    • political
    • …
    verb + memoir
    • publish
    • write
    • read
    • …
    preposition
    • in your memoir
    • memoir about
    • memoir of
    • …
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  2.  
    [countable] (formal) a written account of somebody’s life, a place, or an event, written by somebody who knows it well
    • his brief memoir of his father's life
    • the market for political memoirs
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • personal
    • childhood
    • political
    • …
    verb + memoir
    • publish
    • write
    • read
    • …
    preposition
    • in your memoir
    • memoir about
    • memoir of
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) ‘memory’.
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