memorabilia
/ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "George has a collection of World War II memorabilia."
- "I can't remember / Give me a reminder / I collect, I reject / Memorabilia / Memorabilia"
- "Have you seen the memorabilia / The rusty old memorabilia / The souvenirs of perfect doom / In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom"
- "Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman."
- "On the other hand, how uſeful is ſuch a faculty, if well exerciſed! To it we owe all thoſe intereſting apothegms and memorabilia of the ancients, which Plutarch, Xenophon, and Valerius Maximus, have tranſmitted to us."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin memorābilia (“things to be remembered”); its use as noun is after Ancient Greek ἀπομνημονεύματα (apomnēmoneúmata) of the neuter plural of memorābilis (“memorable”). Its English use is perhaps after the Latin title Memorabilia of Xenophon’s collection of Socratic dialogues.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/
- British English: /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/