memoir
Americannoun
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a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
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Usually memoirs.
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an account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiography.
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the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society.
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a biography or biographical sketch.
noun
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a biography or historical account, esp one based on personal knowledge
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an essay or monograph, as on a specialized topic
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obsolete a memorandum
Other Word Forms
- memoirist noun
Etymology
Origin of memoir
First recorded in 1560–70; from French mémoire, from Latin memoria; memory
Example Sentences
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“Unread,” his brisk, conversational memoir, recounts the loops and switchbacks on his path to literacy, conveyed through discussions of more than a dozen books that shaped his quest.
He published a memoir, “Laughter in the Rain: My Own Story,” in 1982 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983.
From Los Angeles Times
Between 2017 and 2020 I published several essays and a memoir about my mother’s imprisonment and our escape from the Islamic Republic, and the displacement that followed.
“Hard Feelings” doesn’t address anxiety because the author covered that ground in his 2012 memoir, “Monkey Mind.”
In the former king's memoir, published last year, he laid bare the tensions his post-abdication life have caused with his son.
From BBC
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