memoirs

mem·oir (m

wär

, -wôr

)

1. An account of the personal experiences of an author.

2. An autobiography. Often used in the plural.

3. A biography or biographical sketch.

4. A report, especially on a scientific or scholarly topic.

5. memoirs The report of the proceedings of a learned society.

[French mémoire, from Old French memoire, memory, from Latin memoria; see memory.]

memoir·ist n.

memoirs [ˈmɛmwɑːz]

pl n

1. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) a collection of reminiscences about a period, series of events, etc., written from personal experience or special sources

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an autobiographical record

3. a collection or record, as of transactions of a society, etc.

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memoirs

plural noun autobiography, diary, life story, life, experiences, memories, journals, recollections, reminiscences If you've read my memoirs, you'll know about it.

Quotations
"To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself" [Marshal Pétain]

Translations

memoirs [ˈmɛmwɑː^rz] npl (= autobiographical account) → mémoires mpl
to write one's memoirs → écrire ses mémoires
memo pad n → bloc-notes m

memoirs [ˈmɛmwɑːz] npl → memorie fpl

memoirs

n pl memoirs [ˈmemwaːz]

a person's written account of his own life; an autobiography When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs. memoires مُذَكَّرات мемоари paměti erindringer; memoirer die Memoiren (pl.) απομνημονεύματα memorias, autobiografía mälestused زندگی نامه شخصی muistelmat mémoires זִיכרוֹנוֹת जीवनी, वितरण životopis, memoari emlékiratok otobiografi æviminningar, sjálfsævisaga memorie 回顧録 회고록, 자서전 memuarai, atsiminimai memuāri; autobiogrāfija autobiografi memoires selvbiografi, erindringer, memoarer pamiętniki memórias memorii мемуары pamäti spomini memoari memoarer บันทึกชีวิตประจำวัน anılar, hatırat 回憶錄 мемуари, спогади تذکرہ، سوانح hồi ký 回忆录

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autobiography
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Casanova de Seingalt
Daudet
de la Mare
diary
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kiss-and-tell
memoir
memoirism
Memoirist
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Ralegh
reminiscences
Saint-Simon

We learn this from the memoirs of a man who was concerned in some few of these defeats and in many of these victories.

The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

"True, Laurence,'" replied Grandfather, smiling; "we must write a book with some such title as this: MEMOIRS OF MY OWN TIMES, BY GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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