1
: an official note or report : memorandum
2
a
: a narrative composed from personal experience
every memoir reminds us of the faraway and long ago, of loss and change, of persons and places beyond recall—
Abigail McCarthy
Abigail McCarthy
b
: autobiography
—usually used in plural
His memoirs recall his student days at Harvard.
c
: biography
his memoir of his longtime friend
3
a
: an account of something noteworthy : report
the work described and discussed in this memoir represent a first-class investigation—J. A. Steers
J. A. Steers
b
memoirs plural
: the record of the proceedings of a learned society
Examples of memoir in a Sentence
a retired politician who is writing his memoirs
He has written a memoir of his mother.
a memoir of Hollywood in the 1930s
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But the memoir is also weirder and wilder than this description implies.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
Palmer stopped by the late-night show to promote her new memoir, Master of Me, and did so looking extremely glamorous in a sheer black lace button-down dress and the aforementioned power pony.
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In the memoir, which came out on Nov. 19, White provided some insight about the strained relationship.
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
The Password buddies also talked about Emmy winner Palmer’s new empowering memoir, Master of Me, her tribute to Usher at this year’s BET Awards and her upcoming big screen comedy with SZA, One of Them Days.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
Palmer stopped by the late-night show to promote her new memoir, Master of Me, and did so looking extremely glamorous in a sheer black lace button-down dress and the aforementioned power pony.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 Nov. 2024
In the memoir, which came out on Nov. 19, White provided some insight about the strained relationship.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Memoir.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memoir. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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memoir
noun
mem·oir
ˈmem-ˌwär 
-ˌwȯ(ə)r
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