Definition of Memorial

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Memorial

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

A memorandum; a record.

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.

Memory; remembrance.

A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

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Memorial Quotations

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
Lawrence Halprin

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Robert Byrne

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
Pericles

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
William Westmoreland

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
Maya Lin

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
Maya Lin

Memorial Translations

memorial in German is Denkmal
memorial in Spanish is conmemorativo

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