memorable
See also: mémorable
English
Etymology
From Middle French mémorable, from Latin memorabilis, from memorare (“to bring to remembrance”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”). See memory, and confer memorabilia.
Adjective
memorable (comparative more memorable, superlative most memorable)
- Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
- Surviving fame to gain, By tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. -Sir John Davies.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:memorable
Derived terms
Translations
worthy of being remembered
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for memorable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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