Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Objects valued for their connection with historical events, culture, or entertainment: posters, publicity photographs, and other movie memorabilia.
- n. Events or experiences worthy of remembrance: a book containing the memorabilia of a life in the theater.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record.
- Things that serve to recall something to memory; things associated with some person, place, or thing that is held in remembrance.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
- n. Mementos of past events; souvenirs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a record of things worth remembering
Etymologies
- Since 1800–1810, borrowing from Latin memorābilia ("things to be remembered"), the neuter plural of the word memorābilis ("memorable"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin memorābilia, neuter pl. of memorābilis, memorable; see memorable. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He did mention that if there was any memorabilia from the game I might want, to give him my address and he'd see what he could do.”
“Some Lennon memorabilia is for sale through the Gotta Have It!”
The Washington Post: John Lennon at 70: His pop culture legacy
“SIEGEL: Somewhere in my house, in a box of childhood memorabilia, is a small button that I received in the second grade.”
“Meanwhile, interesting Admiral Lord N elson memorabilia is coming up.”
“In 1959, she won the city's "Miss Subways" pageant, and all of the family's restaurants have since been decorated with posters and memorabilia from the Miss Subways contests.”
The Wall Street Journal: Saluting a Maker of Local Landmarks
“And Coraline movie memorabilia is being auctioned off on eBay to benefit the Starlight Children's Foundation.”
“Are you a big fan of the cult sci-fi film, Time Bandits, but find memorabilia from the film sorely lacking?”
“I kept a few of my disks and put them in memorabilia box that I have a bunch of other highschool stuff in, the big binder itself with the other cds/burnt disks went into the garbage. comparanoid”
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“I saw Hootie and the Blowfish at the New Orleans Jazz festival a few years ago but my only memorabilia is a shirt with alligators on it. rashbre”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘memorabilia’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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collectors and collections
Names for collectors, collections, etc.
petroliana, paranumismatica, exonumia, Disneyana, militaria, railwayana, tobacciana, memorabilia, peridromophily, peridromophile, scripophily, philately and 5 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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haphazard's Words
repeal, resusitate, heavenly, godly, goodly, aggrandization, ixnay, reprimand, detriment, memorabilia, grueling, technophobe and 7 more...
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10-cent Words - Literally!
I'm giving my daughter 10 cents for each new word she learns how to spell - here is a sampling.
labyrinth, lackadaisical, laryngitis, lecithin, legerdemain, leviathan, lichen, lieutenant, lilliputian, liniment, logarithm, lozenge and 17 more...
Tweets
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