living memory
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Man's collective memory of the past.
Example Sentences
- "These writers were recording the living memory of those times."
- "The document refers to the practice as “ett urgammalt bruk” (an ancient custom). Clearly this was a custom that was older than the living memory of anyone living in Okome at that time, making it at least as old as the early eighteenth century (although likely older)."
Inflected Forms
living memories (plural)
Phrases
Synonyms
human memory