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Definition of Memento
1. Noun. A reminder of past events.
Definition of Memento
1. n. A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Definition of Memento
1. Noun. A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Memento
1. something that serves as a reminder of the past [n -TOS or -TOES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Memento
Literary usage of Memento
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"memento 1. Whatever be the art which, or in which, you think to invent, ...
memento 2. Beware of intellectual servility. In other words, take reason not ..."
2. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"memento, homo, quod cinis es ! Think, man, thow art bot erd and ass ! Lang heir
to dwell na thing thow press, For as thow come sa sall thow pass, ..."
3. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"Won't you give me, Katie darling, One memento I may keep, Won't you kiss me,
pretty maiden, While the stars are all asleep ? Won't you give me, ..."
4. The Bannatyne Manuscript by Walter Scott, David Laing (1896)
"[memento, Homo, quod Cinis es!] memento, homo, quod cinis es! Think, man, thow
art bot erd and afs! Lang heir to dwell na thing thow prefs, For as thow come ..."
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