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commemorabilia

noun

Etymology

Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.

  1. derived from commemorābilis
  2. borrowed from commemorābilia

Definitions

  1. Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an…

    Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.

    • By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for commemorabilia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA