Memorabilia
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events. plural, plural-normally
"George has a collection of World War II memorabilia."
- 2 a record of things worth remembering wordnet
- 3 Things worth remembering: noteworthy points. archaic, plural, plural-normally
"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."
Example
More examples"I put that in the category about memorabilia."
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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