Definitions for memoir

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memoir mem·oir

Spelling: [mem-wahr, -wawr]

IPA: /ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr/

Memoir is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in memoir (eimmor).

Definitions for memoir

noun

1. a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
2. Usually, memoirs. an account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiography. the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society.
3. a biography or biographical sketch.

Origin of memoir

1560-70; French mémoire Latin memoria; see memory

Examples for memoir

In the memoir this action is by mistake attributed to the Count.

What made you want to write a memoir now about your “addiction” to film?

Now, the goalkeeper is out with a memoir about his life until that point: The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them.

The woman in question, meanwhile, has business of her own to take care of—she is reported to be shopping a memoir.

Many of these are recounted in a later portion of this memoir.

For years, Brooke even had trouble finding a publisher for his memoir, which was ultimately accepted by Rutgers University Press.

Some day I hope there may be a memoir of him; for none has yet appeared.

From time to time he sent a memoir to the Academie des Sciences at Paris.

Then, why did you not address a memoir to that effect to the Minister?'

The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.