Word Meanings - MEMORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building. There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope. 2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession. 3. Mnemonic; assisting the
Additional info about word: MEMORIAL
1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building. There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope. 2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession. 3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory. This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH. Skeat. Memorial Day. Same as Decoration Day.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEMORIAL)
- Remembrance
- Recollection
- memory
- memorial
- token
- souvenir
- memento
- reminiscence
- Sign
- Token
- indication
- proof
- expression
- symbol
- emblem
- prefiguration
- badge
- type
- premonition
- symptom
- prognostic
- mark
- wonder
- presage
- signal
- Evidence
- exhibition
- demonstration
- sample
- illustration
- index
- diagnosis
- sign
Related words: (words related to MEMORIAL)
- SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - BADGELESS
Having no badge. Bp. Hall. - EXHIBITION
The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, - PROGNOSTICABLE
Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne. - PROGNOSTICATOR
One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13. - SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - EXHIBITIONER
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. - BADGE
A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; - BADGERING
1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. - WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - WONDER
Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson. - SYMBOLISM
The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system - EMBLEMIZE
To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. - MEMORIAL DAY
A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the - WONDERFUL
Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n. - TOKENLESS
Without a token. - PROOF-PROOF
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley. - MEMENTO MORI
Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of death. - EVIDENCER
One whi gives evidence. - INEVIDENCE
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - PLOT-PROOF
Secure against harm by plots. Shak. - UNREMEMBRANCE
Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts. - BLOCK SIGNAL
One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.