memorabilia

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/
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/ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/ · /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbiːlɪə/ · /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbilɪə/ · /ˌmem(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/ · /ˌmem(ə)ɹəˈbiːlɪə/

Definition of memorabilia

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (plural, plural-normally)Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events.
    “George has a collection of World War II memorabilia.”
    “I can't remember / Give me a reminder / I collect, I reject / Memorabilia / Memorabilia”
    “Have you seen the memorabilia / The rusty old memorabilia / The souvenirs of perfect doom / In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom”
    “Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.”
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noun

  1. (plural, plural-normally)Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events.
    “George has a collection of World War II memorabilia.”
    “I can't remember / Give me a reminder / I collect, I reject / Memorabilia / Memorabilia”
    “Have you seen the memorabilia / The rusty old memorabilia / The souvenirs of perfect doom / In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom”
    “Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.”
  2. (archaic, plural, plural-normally)Things worth remembering: noteworthy points.
    “On the other hand, how uſeful is ſuch a faculty, if well exerciſed! To it we owe all thoſe intereſting apothegms and memorabilia of the ancients, which Plutarch, Xenophon, and Valerius Maximus, have tranſmitted to us.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin memorābilia (“things to be remembered”); its use as noun is after Ancient Greek ἀπομνημονεύματα (apomnēmoneúmata) of the neuter plural of memorābilis (“memorable”). Its English use is perhaps after the Latin title Memorabilia of Xenophon’s collection of Socratic dialogues.

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