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单词 memorial
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Definition of memorial in English:

memorial

noun mɪˈmɔːrɪəlməˈmɔriəl
  • 1A statue or structure established to remind people of a person or event.

    a memorial to General Robert E. Lee
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I'd expected to see looted shops, broken glass, and a lot of mess, but it really was shocking to see the Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war-dead, daubed with graffiti.
    • According to initial plans the garden is to be created on Kendal's historic Waterside and is planned as a memorial to the town's industrial heritage based in the area during the 19th century.
    • On the hillside above the cemetery is a memorial to ‘the Glendale martyrs’, one of whom - John MacPherson - was an ancestor of the woman we buried.
    • He understood that when the arch was first proposed, it had been intended as a memorial to asbestos victims but it had ended up more of a memorial to the carriageworks generally and its craftsmanship.
    • And just this month a plaque was unveiled at Orpington Hospital as a memorial to the Ontario Military Hospital and the Canadian soldiers who were treated there.
    • The Memorial Pool should be just that - a memorial to the past and the local history of the city.
    • There are a couple of dozen tombstones, a memorial to men who died in the First World War.
    • The gates, believed to have been made in France in 1715 by Jean Tijou, were installed in the 1950s as a memorial to employees of the family's York cocoa works.
    • The anchor was raised some years ago near Boatstrand and has now been mounted on the pier with an appropriate plaque as a memorial to its ill-fated captain and crew.
    • They also joined in the fighting in France where a memorial to them stands at Delville Wood, near the town of Longueval during the battle of the Somme from July to November 1916.
    • A glass sculpture created in Warminster will be the centrepiece of a memorial to the D-Day landings in France 60 years ago.
    • It was announced that a memorial to the Ministry of Defence man would be erected in ‘his native South Wales’, where he had not actually lived since shortly after his birth.
    • The chalkboard bearing the names of these men has now become their tombstone, a memorial to the six who left their firehouse never to return again.
    • Most were not aware of the existence of a memorial to the Whiddy Island horror, a mast-shaped sculpture erected in Bantry cemetery.
    • At the junction of the two stands London's only cross-eyed statue, a memorial to 18th century libertarian John Wilkes.
    • The best place to see this is the wonderful church he built after the First World War at Le Raincy in the eastern Paris suburbs, as a memorial to the Marne victory that halted the German advance of 1914.
    • He thinks that the monument should be a memorial to people who died in all the conflicts, not just the two world wars.
    • This statue now stands as a memorial to one of the city's more traditional achievements.
    • At this time, it became the village hall and was renamed Haxby Memorial Hall as a memorial to the dead of two world wars.
    • Keep going, uphill and round two sharp bends, before turning left to see Bruce's Stone (a memorial to the battle), where you get great views of the loch and valley.
    Synonyms
    monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph
    statue, plaque, brass, cairn
    tombstone, gravestone, headstone, trophy
    tribute, testimonial, remembrance, memento, souvenir
    1. 1.1as modifier Intended to commemorate someone or something.
      a memorial service in the dead man's honour
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They have arranged to hold a special memorial service in June commemorating all the people ‘laid to rest’ at their beloved Maine Road.
      • The ship was to arrive in Geraldton on November 17 and crew were to join in three days of dedication celebrations and memorial services.
      • The family of a dead 17-year-old have accused the workmen of ripping out memorial plants and a commemorative hockey stick from his grave and dumping them.
      • Every year survivors, relatives and servicemen gather at Scapa Flow in Orkney for a memorial service commemorating the worst loss of British naval life in domestic waters.
      • Jol had his emotions stirred by Sunday's memorial service for Nicholson, who guided Tottenham to their first league and cup double and unprecedented success in Europe.
      • In January of 2004, Richard Goode spoke at a memorial service commemorating the life and death of a coal miner named Joseph Mairs, Jr.
      • Nguyen-Hatsushiba first intended each memorial project to be a performance in a large tank, aquarium or pool.
      • On the 100th anniversary of the fall, a memorial service will commemorate the lives of the four intrepid climbers who lost their lives on The Pinnacle.
      • Joining him and his crew are two survivors from the sinking, which enables Cameron to film their reactions at memorial services for HMS Hood and the Bismarck.
      • Thousands of people came to that memorial service.
      • Casters make commemorative or memorial busts and figures specially ordered and designed by clients.
      • His memorial service, which commemorated all the victims of the crash, was like no other.
      • It seemed to me that this man's memorial service paid tribute not only to memory - to remembering who he was - but also to life.
      • A Bradford school is to unveil four memorial benches commemorating the lives of two pupils who have died in the last year.
      • Here is a good site where you can listen to it and other songs like ‘Trelawny’, that was played at Rick Rescorla's memorial service in Hayle.
      • At the top of the hill stand new memorial gates commemorating the wartime sacrifice of soldiers from across the Commonwealth.
      • Lismore Police officers reflect during the one-minute silence at the Police Remembrance Day memorial service.
      • Sandy Kelly told the Evening Press he intended attending the memorial service, at which he looked forward to meeting Glenn's relatives, including his son, Tom.
      • Actor Richard Harris will be remembered at memorial services in Dublin and London, his family said last night.
      • That night, and for the next seven days, the extra chairs the family had borrowed for Raymond's celebratory goodbye party would be used for his wake and memorial service.
  • 2historical A statement of facts, especially as the basis of a petition.

    the Council sent a strongly worded memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Read in its entirety the memorial is no petition for clemency or mercy but makes out a clear and emphatic case on the basis of legal rights and constitutional practices and principles.
    1. 2.1 A record or memoir.
      Mrs Carlyle's Letters and Memorials
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Often there is an array of family memorials recording the passing generations.
      • The ongoing debates over memorials, memoirs, and the diminishing possibilities of authentic memory are given erudite, expressive, and eloquent treatment.
      • The new photographic memorials are modeled on the United States' Holocaust Museum and its metonymic use of photographs to convey loss.
      • His catalogue of recordings comprises a splendid memorial, but he will be sorely missed; opera in Britain is the poorer for his passing.
      • They have given hours of their time to tracing memorials and recording their existence.
      • Thus, it is all the more important that memorials contain accurate information about history as mediated ideology.
      • It is understandable that the memorials would blend this information out, but not acceptable.
      • This points to the function of the memorial in recording wartime feelings about conscription and service.
      • The information published in the memorials was collected by volunteers, amongst whom was Lord Walter Fitzgerald of Kilkea Castle, Fr.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin memoriale 'record, memory, monument', from Latin memorialis 'serving as a reminder', from memoria 'memory'.

Rhymes

accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tonsorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial
 
 

Definition of memorial in US English:

memorial

nounməˈmɔriəlməˈmôrēəl
  • 1Something, especially a structure, established to remind people of a person or event.

    a monument built as a memorial to those who fell in the Civil War
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are a couple of dozen tombstones, a memorial to men who died in the First World War.
    • He understood that when the arch was first proposed, it had been intended as a memorial to asbestos victims but it had ended up more of a memorial to the carriageworks generally and its craftsmanship.
    • The best place to see this is the wonderful church he built after the First World War at Le Raincy in the eastern Paris suburbs, as a memorial to the Marne victory that halted the German advance of 1914.
    • A glass sculpture created in Warminster will be the centrepiece of a memorial to the D-Day landings in France 60 years ago.
    • The gates, believed to have been made in France in 1715 by Jean Tijou, were installed in the 1950s as a memorial to employees of the family's York cocoa works.
    • On the hillside above the cemetery is a memorial to ‘the Glendale martyrs’, one of whom - John MacPherson - was an ancestor of the woman we buried.
    • At the junction of the two stands London's only cross-eyed statue, a memorial to 18th century libertarian John Wilkes.
    • They also joined in the fighting in France where a memorial to them stands at Delville Wood, near the town of Longueval during the battle of the Somme from July to November 1916.
    • The chalkboard bearing the names of these men has now become their tombstone, a memorial to the six who left their firehouse never to return again.
    • The anchor was raised some years ago near Boatstrand and has now been mounted on the pier with an appropriate plaque as a memorial to its ill-fated captain and crew.
    • It was announced that a memorial to the Ministry of Defence man would be erected in ‘his native South Wales’, where he had not actually lived since shortly after his birth.
    • Keep going, uphill and round two sharp bends, before turning left to see Bruce's Stone (a memorial to the battle), where you get great views of the loch and valley.
    • This statue now stands as a memorial to one of the city's more traditional achievements.
    • The Memorial Pool should be just that - a memorial to the past and the local history of the city.
    • I'd expected to see looted shops, broken glass, and a lot of mess, but it really was shocking to see the Cenotaph, a memorial to Britain's war-dead, daubed with graffiti.
    • He thinks that the monument should be a memorial to people who died in all the conflicts, not just the two world wars.
    • At this time, it became the village hall and was renamed Haxby Memorial Hall as a memorial to the dead of two world wars.
    • And just this month a plaque was unveiled at Orpington Hospital as a memorial to the Ontario Military Hospital and the Canadian soldiers who were treated there.
    • Most were not aware of the existence of a memorial to the Whiddy Island horror, a mast-shaped sculpture erected in Bantry cemetery.
    • According to initial plans the garden is to be created on Kendal's historic Waterside and is planned as a memorial to the town's industrial heritage based in the area during the 19th century.
    Synonyms
    monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph
    tribute, testimonial, remembrance, memento, souvenir
    1. 1.1as modifier Intended to commemorate someone or something.
      a memorial service in the dead man's honor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His memorial service, which commemorated all the victims of the crash, was like no other.
      • The family of a dead 17-year-old have accused the workmen of ripping out memorial plants and a commemorative hockey stick from his grave and dumping them.
      • Casters make commemorative or memorial busts and figures specially ordered and designed by clients.
      • Joining him and his crew are two survivors from the sinking, which enables Cameron to film their reactions at memorial services for HMS Hood and the Bismarck.
      • Nguyen-Hatsushiba first intended each memorial project to be a performance in a large tank, aquarium or pool.
      • In January of 2004, Richard Goode spoke at a memorial service commemorating the life and death of a coal miner named Joseph Mairs, Jr.
      • They have arranged to hold a special memorial service in June commemorating all the people ‘laid to rest’ at their beloved Maine Road.
      • Every year survivors, relatives and servicemen gather at Scapa Flow in Orkney for a memorial service commemorating the worst loss of British naval life in domestic waters.
      • Thousands of people came to that memorial service.
      • A Bradford school is to unveil four memorial benches commemorating the lives of two pupils who have died in the last year.
      • It seemed to me that this man's memorial service paid tribute not only to memory - to remembering who he was - but also to life.
      • Actor Richard Harris will be remembered at memorial services in Dublin and London, his family said last night.
      • Lismore Police officers reflect during the one-minute silence at the Police Remembrance Day memorial service.
      • That night, and for the next seven days, the extra chairs the family had borrowed for Raymond's celebratory goodbye party would be used for his wake and memorial service.
      • At the top of the hill stand new memorial gates commemorating the wartime sacrifice of soldiers from across the Commonwealth.
      • On the 100th anniversary of the fall, a memorial service will commemorate the lives of the four intrepid climbers who lost their lives on The Pinnacle.
      • Here is a good site where you can listen to it and other songs like ‘Trelawny’, that was played at Rick Rescorla's memorial service in Hayle.
      • Jol had his emotions stirred by Sunday's memorial service for Nicholson, who guided Tottenham to their first league and cup double and unprecedented success in Europe.
      • The ship was to arrive in Geraldton on November 17 and crew were to join in three days of dedication celebrations and memorial services.
      • Sandy Kelly told the Evening Press he intended attending the memorial service, at which he looked forward to meeting Glenn's relatives, including his son, Tom.
  • 2historical A statement of facts, especially as the basis of a petition.

    the council sent a strongly worded memorial to the chancellor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Read in its entirety the memorial is no petition for clemency or mercy but makes out a clear and emphatic case on the basis of legal rights and constitutional practices and principles.
    1. 2.1 A record or chronicle.
      Mrs. Carlyle's Letters and Memorials
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus, it is all the more important that memorials contain accurate information about history as mediated ideology.
      • The ongoing debates over memorials, memoirs, and the diminishing possibilities of authentic memory are given erudite, expressive, and eloquent treatment.
      • The information published in the memorials was collected by volunteers, amongst whom was Lord Walter Fitzgerald of Kilkea Castle, Fr.
      • This points to the function of the memorial in recording wartime feelings about conscription and service.
      • The new photographic memorials are modeled on the United States' Holocaust Museum and its metonymic use of photographs to convey loss.
      • Often there is an array of family memorials recording the passing generations.
      • His catalogue of recordings comprises a splendid memorial, but he will be sorely missed; opera in Britain is the poorer for his passing.
      • It is understandable that the memorials would blend this information out, but not acceptable.
      • They have given hours of their time to tracing memorials and recording their existence.

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin memoriale ‘record, memory, monument’, from Latin memorialis ‘serving as a reminder’, from memoria ‘memory’.

 
 
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