- plural of memoir.
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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The last good book I read was Margaret George’s “The Memoirs of Cleopatra.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025
Memoirs like Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl, about spina bifida, and Jami Lin Nakamura’s The Night Parade, about mental illness, use monsters and monstrosity to discuss disability.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024
Memoirs by Britney Spears and the Duke of Sussex have been shortlisted for the British Book Awards Book of the Year.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024
Memoirs are flawed, as memory is flawed, but they are a kind of a record, told by the one who was there.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2023
"I rejoined my family to find in it a son whom I had never seen, born while I was on the Isthmus of Panama," Grant said in his "Personal Memoirs."
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
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