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Definition of Keepsake
1. Noun. Something of sentimental value.
Generic synonyms: Object, Physical Object
Specialized synonyms: Love-token, Favor, Favour, Party Favor, Party Favour
Definition of Keepsake
1. n. Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
Definition of Keepsake
1. Noun. Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons. ¹
2. Noun. (historical) Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Keepsake
1. a memento [n -S] - See also: memento
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keepsake
Literary usage of Keepsake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plough, the Loom, and the AnvilFarm buildings (1855)
"3 UO Either of the S2 Magazines and the Wreath and the keepsake, or either of the
... 3 00 Four copies of the Ladies' Wreath or the Ladies' keepsake, . ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"The Historical keepsake; a series of Original Tales, ... It is there said " the
success which attended the first volume of the Historical keepsake, ..."
3. Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855 by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907)
"In winter we live so much to ourselves that I have scarcely heard of it \_The
keepsake~\ or any of its brethren. You do well to point out to me what would ..."
4. Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855 by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1907)
"In winter we live so much to ourselves that I have scarcely heard of it [ The
keepsake} or any of its brethren. You do well to point out to me what would ..."
5. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
"keepsake MILL Home from the Indies and home from the ocean, Heroes and soldiers
we all shall come home ; Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion, ..."
6. A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"XXVI keepsake MILL OVER the borders, a sin without pardon. Breaking the branches
and crawling below, ..."
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