souvenir

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

   Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness

2. 2
   verb

   To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

   "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."

3. 3
   noun

   something of sentimental value

4. 4
   noun

   a reminder of past events

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.