MEMENTO | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of memento in English

(Definition of memento from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of memento

memento
The labelling continued - a concise memento recognised by everyone.
He writes that the photographs 'stand as a "memento mori", presenting an architecture of memory - a recollection of function without utility, of space without time'.
Of course such mementos also had religious connotations.
They now served as scenery, and the rise of photography, with its ethnographic devotion to salvaging mementos of a lost frontier, would not save them.
Interspersed repeats and other mementos of transposable elements in mammalian genomes.
Often the letter itself became a memento of emotional or later commercial value.
The high price of such a memento would undoubtedly have restricted it to the rising liberal middle-classes.
Verbal and visual, private and portable, the literary portrait is a memento of an exciting reading experience.
In a few months we shall regard the price lists as tatty and dog-eared mementoes of a former age which we do not quite understand.
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I shall be among the first tomorrow morning to claim it and keep it as a memento.
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But it is a pleasing memento for the soldier who is lucky enough to be ordered to that theatre of war.
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They can sell the physical thing—the manuscripts—as mementos or relics, but what he has created from his brain cannot bring financial tribute to his family.
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I think that the second question asked whether schoolchildren should receive the little mementos that many of us received and treasured in our younger days.
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One might think of some memento of value.
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If visitors were too idle to chip away the pieces for themselves, instead they could buy pieces for mementos.
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Translations of memento

in Chinese (Traditional)
紀念物,紀念品,引起回憶的東西…
in Chinese (Simplified)
纪念物,纪念品,引起回忆的东西…
in Spanish
recuerdo, recordatorio…
in Portuguese
recordação, lembrança…
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記念品…
hatıra, yadigâr…
souvenir…
record…
aandenken…
minde, souvenir…
minne[ssak]…
cenderamata…
die Erinnerung…
minne, suvenir…
нагадування, сувенір…
сувенир, памятный подарок…
تِذكار…
vzpomínka, upomínka…
kenang-kenangan…
ของที่ถูกเก็บไว้หรือให้เพื่อเป็นที่ระลึก…
vật lưu niệm…
pamiątka…
기념품…
ricordo, oggetto ricordo, souvenir…
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