memorial

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a recognition of meritorious service
noun a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority
noun a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. By surface analysis, memory + -ial.

[139] “Memorials of Fox,” ii, 33. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Prize A. O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
A curious memorial of it survives to this day. — Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote

commemoration, remembrance

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