memoirs
Britishplural noun
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a collection of reminiscences about a period, series of events, etc, written from personal experience or special sources
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an autobiographical record
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a collection or record, as of transactions of a society, etc
Example Sentences
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Good novels and memoirs remind us that whatever our own issues might be, they are at some level universal.
We’re studying memoirs, which is a fancy word for a story you write about yourself.
From Literature
She notes that her grandmother “left everything to do with her Jewish past out of her memoirs.”
“Scene,” however, is not one of those memoirs that has fun with the sowing and skirts the reaping.
Since his one term in power, Sarkozy has become an influential backroom political player on the French right and a prolific writer of memoirs and books.
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