1
: an official note or report : memorandum
2
a
: a narrative composed from personal experience
every memoir reminds us of the faraway and long ago, of loss and change, of persons and places beyond recall—
Abigail McCarthy
Abigail McCarthy
b
: autobiography
—usually used in plural
His memoirs recall his student days at Harvard.
c
: biography
his memoir of his longtime friend
3
a
: an account of something noteworthy : report
the work described and discussed in this memoir represent a first-class investigation—J. A. Steers
J. A. Steers
b
memoirs plural
: the record of the proceedings of a learned society
Examples of memoir in a Sentence
a retired politician who is writing his memoirs
He has written a memoir of his mother.
a memoir of Hollywood in the 1930s
Recent Examples on the Web
In her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, Spears wrote about her complicated relationship with her two children.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
The pop icon detailed her rise to fame, relationship with ex Federline, being a mother, her conservatorship and more in her memoir The Woman in Me, which was released in 2023 and acquired by Universal Pictures, Variety reported in October.
—Anna Chan, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
Haley Mlotek nobly pushes forth a thesis statement for this very genre in her debut memoir, referencing other artists (Leslie Jamison, Sarah Manguso, and Jenny Offill) who have made their work out of the wreckages of their marriages.
—Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
Until her memoir, Rotolo had maintained strict privacy about her memories of her time with Dylan.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
The pop icon detailed her rise to fame, relationship with ex Federline, being a mother, her conservatorship and more in her memoir The Woman in Me, which was released in 2023 and acquired by Universal Pictures, Variety reported in October.
—Anna Chan, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
Haley Mlotek nobly pushes forth a thesis statement for this very genre in her debut memoir, referencing other artists (Leslie Jamison, Sarah Manguso, and Jenny Offill) who have made their work out of the wreckages of their marriages.
—Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
Until her memoir, Rotolo had maintained strict privacy about her memories of her time with Dylan.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Memoir.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memoir. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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memoir
noun
mem·oir
ˈmem-ˌwär 
-ˌwȯ(ə)r
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