souvenir

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/ (UK)
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/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/ (UK) · /ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/ (US) · /ˌsu.vəˈnɪɹ/ (US) · /ˌsoʊ.vəˈnɪ.ə/

Definition of souvenir

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
    “Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness”
    “The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.”
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noun

  1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
    “Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness”
    “The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
    “"Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."”
    “The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.

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