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[ US /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛmwɑː/ ]
NOUN
  1. an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic
  2. an account of the author's personal experiences

How To Use memoir In A Sentence

  • Their memoirs have supplied a level of authenticity and detail unavailable to previous film-makers.
  • Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705). COSMIC VOYAGES
  • This, perhaps the greatest period of an already great life, has been sensitively written about by memoirists and historians.
  • At times, his book reads more like a political manifesto than a rock memoir. Times, Sunday Times
  • Someone who writes a literary memoir, for example, is by necessity examining issues of self and identity.
  • There are further parallels to be drawn within this illusory cat 's cradle of fiction, memoir and biography. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hunkin's page coincided with our acquisition of this book by the delightfully-named Shifty Burke, Memoirs of a safe-breaker, published by Arthur Baker Ltd in 1966.
  • War poetry and memoirs tell a more honest story. Times, Sunday Times
  • I told her no; gave her the names of a few funny memoirists who have chronicled their experiences dealing with weight issues in the ‘dating game,’ and sent her on her way.
  • On a lighter note, Luke Haines, the indie pop star who dresses like John Betjeman, will be reading from his memoirs and performing acoustically Fri. This week's new live music
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