memoir
noun /ˈmemwɑː(r)/
/ˈmemwɑːr/
- memoirs[plural] an account written by somebody, especially somebody famous, about their life and experiencesExtra Examples
- O'Connor published a childhood memoir.
- He has published a long memoir about those years.
- She describes in her memoirs how she coped with her mother's death.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- personal
- childhood
- political
- …
- publish
- write
- read
- …
- in your memoir
- memoir about
- memoir of
- …
- [countable] (formal) a written account of somebody’s life, a place, or an event, written by somebody who knows it well
- his brief memoir of his father's life
- the market for political memoirs
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- personal
- childhood
- political
- …
- publish
- write
- read
- …
- in your memoir
- memoir about
- memoir of
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) ‘memory’.