keepsake
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of keepsake
Explanation
A keepsake is an object that has sentimental value, like a locket that belonged to your grandmother. In one of the Batman movies, Bruce Wayne keeps the pearls his mother wore the day she was murdered. Those pearls are a keepsake: something that has great meaning because of its association with a person. Many parents keep pictures their kids drew as keepsakes. If you loved a job, you might have a keepsake from it. Souvenirs from fun vacations are keepsakes. A keepsake is something we keep for the sake of the people and events we want to always remember.
Vocabulary lists containing keepsake
Crenshaw
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Example Sentences
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I'd love it if you could speak to the "Keepsake" part of the title?
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024
Keepsake and archival value aside, printed programs enjoy a window of usefulness that seldom lasts more than a few hours — compared with the months it will spend decomposing in a landfill.
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2022
Keepsake Floral says it takes more than 10 steps to preserve flowers, which are separated from stems before getting rehydrated and pre-treated for dehydration.
From Fox News • Feb. 1, 2022
Kiki Deville created the Keepsake Circle, a group of parents working through loss in a creative way, after the death of her son Dexter at Derian House Children's Hospice in Chorley in 2007.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2021
For some years her income from "The Keepsake" and "The Book of Beauty" exceeded one thousand pounds a year.
From Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment by Willing, Thomson
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