Definitions for Memory

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Memory mem·o·ry

Spelling: [mem-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈmɛm ə ri/

Memory is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in Memory (emmory).

Definitions for Memory

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 Memory

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

Examples for Memory

I had no memory of the other two, and that information was used to discredit my recollection of what had happened to me.

Some one has said of Mr. Gladstone that his memory was "terrible."

It was out of this anger, oddly enough, that the memory of the girl came to him.

Here it is, in the faces of the victims, in the stories of bravery, in the souls and memory of the survivors, the next of kin.

Tosi has been using cereal milk as a flavor ever since 2007, and she says it taps into a universal “memory sensor.”

It is a tribute to the memory and worth of one of his early friends at Eton.

It was the music of climes where sorrow is but the memory of that which has been turned into joy.

It is contemplated to erect a monument, by subscription, to Mr. Fessenden's memory.

And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.

It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.