memories


mem·o·ry

M0212600 (mĕm′ə-rē) n. pl. mem·o·ries 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. 2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory. 3. All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory. 4. Something that is remembered: pleasant childhood memories. 5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' memory. 6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind. 7. Computers a. A circuit or device that stores digital data. b. Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory. 8. Statistics The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process. 9. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation. 10. Immunology The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.
[Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French, from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful; see (s)mer-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

memoirs

– memories1. 'memoirs'

When someone writes their memoirs, they write a book about people and events that they remember.

He was busy writing his memoirs.They're making a movie of his war memoirs.2. 'memories'

You do not use 'memoirs' to refer to things that you remember about the past. The word you use is memories.

My memories of a London childhood are happy ones.One of my earliest memories is of a total eclipse of the sun.