Definitions for mementos

mementos me·men·to

Spelling: [muh-men-toh]
IPA: /məˈmɛn toʊ/

Mementos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 201 anagrams from letters in mementos (eemmnost).

Definitions for mementos

noun

  1. an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.
  2. anything serving as a reminder or warning.
  3. (initial capital letter, italics) Roman Catholic Church. either of two prayers in the canon of the Mass, one for persons living and the other for persons dead.

Origin of mementos

1350-1400; Middle English Latin mementō, imperative of meminisse to remember

Examples for mementos

And, though unselfish, she did want to retain some mementos of her foreign trip.

Fleeing their homes, many Syrians left behind middle-class lives; most arrived with none of the mementos that stir memory.

The father of her son looks into her eyes and points to the mementos of their early love.

The date showed that it had been given to her by his father, and the shirt and doll were mementos of him, her darling—of himself.

They also place them about and upon the dead bodies of their friends, as mementos of affection.

The room is deliciously crowded with books, photographs, and mementos—things Didion once treasured for the memories they evoked.

Here were representatives of the living and mementos of the dead!

Been carrying these mementos around with you all these years?

Then she brought two other mementos and hung them also on the wall.

“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment,” she writes in the book.

Word Value for mementos
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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