Synonyms for memoir
ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔrmem·oir

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1. memoir

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

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   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, history, memorial, muniment, narration, narrative, recital, record, register, story

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1. memoir

   Synonyms:
   biographical sketch, personal narrative, familiar biography, narrative, chronicle, record, register, journal, life

Princeton's WordNet

1. memoirnoun

   an account of the author's personal experiences

2. memoirnoun

   an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic

Matched Categories

1. • Autobiography
   • Essay

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1. memoirnoun

   Synonyms:
   personal narrative, familiar biography

2. memoirnoun

   Synonyms:
   record, register, journal, written account

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1. memoirnoun

   Synonyms:
   biography, autobiography

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1. List of paraphrases for "memoir":

   autobiography, memory, memoranda

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How to use memoir in a sentence?

1. Freida Pinto:

   We thought we knew Huma’s story — the woman behind the scenes, and then reluctantly in front of the camera when her own life hit the news. Then, we read her memoir and were stunned by her candor, generosity, warmth, intelligence, and the way that her childhood, faith and family have so authentically woven through her whole life.

2. Lucy Lipiner:

   Long Journey Home : A Young Girl's Memoir of Surviving the Holocaust, she was mistaken. This was very much against my race, my Jewishness.

3. Guy Fieri:

   This really started almost as a family memoir getting my kid ready for college.

4. Dylan Farrow:

   I was disappointed to learn through press reports that Hachette, my publisher, acquired Woody Allen's memoir after other major publishers refused to do so and concealed the decision from me and Ronan Farrow book own employees while we were working on Catch and Kill -- a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse.

5. Alexa PenaVega:

   It’s so easy to want to hide that because you don’t want to be judged by what you believe. But this is my life, my faith and my life are the same things. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re always preaching. But God is such a part of our lives that no matter what we do, our faith gets brought up. So it does get brought up. We happen to be people who love the word of God and are happy to share it. In their new memoir.