memoir
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈmɛm.wɑr/
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memorias
- Hey, I'm writing a memoir about my life.
- write a memoir
- read a memoir
- memoir genre
It reads like a memoir, but it's not.
- It reads like a memoir, but it's not.
- This is how he, Brennan remembers it in his unpublished memoir, Elliot.
- Glenn has just released a new memoir in which he tells all.
- This wasn't a memoir per SE, but it was close.
- But anyway, Grant's memoirs are a magnificent work of literature.
- He's just written a new memoir, Being Henry, The Fonz and Beyond.
- This is the memoir from the dad's point of view.
- But we're willing to do like memoir, you know, or historical fiction.
- Do you remember the first memoir you read where you said, I want to do this?
- And he goes to start writing his his memoirs and he gets an awful advance.
- It's collecting memoir titles and we get a few.
- This is more of like a memoir kind of thing.
Examples
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She will be publishing her memoir titled Unqualified later this year.
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In her latest book, she shares personal stories in her memoir about growing up in a small town.
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By the time my mother finished her memoir, there was no doubt in my mind.
Academic text (1999) -
Here is the event that inspired my most recent memoir, Mexican Enough: My Life
Academic text (2011) -
As we moved through the genre study, our memoir writing was steadily improving.
Academic text (2012) -
The Invention of Solitude is, in part, A's memoir of his relationship with his father.
Fiction book (1994) -
Melissa Hart is the author of the memoir, The Assault of Laughter.
Academic text (2008) -
I have decided to write a memoir of my early years, the Squatney years, you know, as a young, wild teenager in Squatney.
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We're keen to publish the occasional memoir that resonates with themes on our scholarly list.
Academic text (2011) -
He published a memoir detailing his adventures as a mountaineer over the last decade.
Synonyms
466
3.0
A report that describes what happened
83
3.8
A book a person writes about their own life
53
2.1
An account of the events and experiences of a person's life
50
4.6
About telling a story in speech or writing
3
3.8
An account of events told in detail
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Memoir comes from the old French and Latin word memoria, which means 'memory'. Think of a memoir as a written 'memory' — a personal story of things the writer remembers.