'Memoir' definitions:
Definition of 'memoir'
From: WordNet
noun
An account of the author's personal experiences
noun
An essay on a scientific or scholarly topic
Definition of 'Memoir'
From: GCIDE
- Memoir \Mem"oir\, or pl. Memoirs \Mem"oirs\, n. [F. m['e]moire, m., memorandum, fr. m['e]moire, f., memory, L. memoria. See Memory.]
- 1. A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'memoir'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- accounts,
- adventures,
- adversaria,
- aide-memoire,
- anecdote,
- annals,
- annotation,
- article,
- autobiography,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- case history,
- causerie,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- Clio,
- commitment to memory,
- confessions,
- curriculum vitae,
- descant,
- diary,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- docket,
- entry,
- essay,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise of memory,
- experiences,
- exposition,
- feature,
- first approach,
- flashback,
- footnote,
- fortunes,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- hindsight,
- historiography,
- history,
- homily,
- introductory study,
- item,
- jotting,
- journal,
- learning by heart,
- legend,
- letters,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- looking back,
- lucubration,
- marginal note,
- marginalia,
- martyrology,
- memo,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorandum,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- memories,
- memorization,
- memorizing,
- memory,
- minutes,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- Muse of history,
- narrative,
- necrology,
- notation,
- note,
- obituary,
- outline,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- photobiography,
- piece,
- preliminary study,
- profile,
- prolegomenon,
- recall,
- recalling,
- recollecting,
- recollection,
- reconsideration,
- record,
- records,
- reflection,
- register,
- registry,
- remembering,
- remembrance,
- reminder,
- reminiscence,
- report,
- reportage,
- research paper,
- resume,
- retrospect,
- retrospection,
- review,
- rote,
- rote memory,
- scholia,
- scholium,
- screed,
- sketch,
- special article,
- story,
- study,
- survey,
- term paper,
- theme,
- theory of history,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment