Definitions for memories

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memories mem·o·ry

Spelling: [mem-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɛm ə ri/

Memories is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in memories (eeimmors).

Definitions for memories

noun

1. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
2. this faculty as possessed by a particular individual:
3. the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection:
4. the length of time over which recollection extends:
5. a mental impression retained; a recollection:
6. the reputation of a person or thing, especially after death; fame:
7. the state or fact of being remembered.
8. a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
9. commemorative remembrance; commemoration:
10. the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
11. Also called computer memory, storage. Computers. the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall. the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
12. Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
13. Cards. concentration (def 7).

Origin of memories

1275-1325; Middle English memorie Latin memoria, equivalent to memor mindful, remembering + -ia -y³

Examples for memories

By the end of his life, the memories of corporal punishment at the hands of his teachers were vivid.

Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.

I may be missing some time and there are memories that will never be retrieved.

Today, with the memories of Ingrid Bergman so vivid in his mind, it seems clear that he's been thinking about her a great deal.

The boys returned to their memories of insult, as they regarded the police force.

She alone was left, heir to all the memories and tragedies of the house.

Some songs get wedged in our memories entirely because of one line.

It makes another link between us, like the memories of our childhood.

Not all the memories of that early day are quite unspotted by remorse.

Plato perceived that the contemplative maiden was busy with memories of the past.