memoir

C1 Topic:People & Society

US /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/ UK /ˈmɛmˌwɑː/ See IPA manual

Freq #25696

Meanings

1

noun
A book in which someone writes about their own life and experiences.

After retiring, the actor wrote a memoir about his early career.

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Word family

Forms memoirs

Derived forms documemoirfoodoirmemoiricmemoirishmemoirismmemoiristmemoiristicmomoirmumoir

Related forms memory

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin memor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin memoria French mémoireder. English memoir From French mémoire (“memoir”), from Latin memoria (“memory”). Doublet of memoria and memory.

mémoire French memoria Latin

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People & Society Literature & Storytelling

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# memoir

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈmɛmˌwɑː/
**Frequency rank:** 25696

## Meanings
1. A book in which someone writes about their own life and experiences.

## Examples
- After retiring, the actor wrote a memoir about his early career.

## Derived Forms
- documemoir
- foodoir
- memoiric
- memoirish
- memoirism
- memoirist
- memoiristic
- momoir
- mumoir

## Related Forms
- memory

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: mémoire
- Root: memoria

## Etymology
Etymology tree Latin memor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin memoria French mémoireder. English memoir From French mémoire (“memoir”), from Latin memoria (“memory”). Doublet of memoria and memory.

## AI Etymology
Memoir comes from French mémoire (“memoir”), from Latin memoria (“memory”). Doublet of memoria and memory. The historical chain includes mémoire (French) and memoria (Latin). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as documemoir, foodoir, memoiric, and memoirish and related forms such as memory. In present use it covers a book in which someone writes about their own life and experiences.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Literature & Storytelling

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