Meaning of Memorial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Memory; recollection.
   obsolete
2. Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
3. A chronicle or memoir.
4. A note or memorandum.
   archaic
5. A service of remembrance or commemoration.
6. A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present⟳ age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have⟳ led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they testify, and are living realities to perpetuate at once the respect⟳ entertained by the nation, both for the individual himself and the performance that has entitled him to their gratitude.”

“Although the country branch lines may pass⟳, they leave⟳ with those who have⟳ known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow⟳ after[,] a memorial in the form⟳ of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy⟳.”

“Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board⟳; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart.”

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