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Definition: Memorial |
MemorialNoun1. A recognition of meritorious service. 2. A written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to a an authority. 3. A structure erected to commemorate persons or events. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "memorial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a memorial, signifies there will be occasion for you to show patient kindness, as trouble and sickness threatens your relatives. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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The Lincoln Memorial, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, is a memorial to United States President Abraham Lincoln.
The Lincoln MemorialThe first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place on Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1915 and the monument was dedicated on May 30, 1922 attended by the former President's only surviving child, Robert Todd Lincoln. It won for its architect, the prominent Beaux-Arts designer Henry Bacon, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, his profession's highest honor, presented at the Monument in 1923.
No one has ever taken this for a 'Lincoln Monument.' Standing apart from the somewhat triumphal and Roman manner of most of Washington, the memorial takes the severe form of a Greek Doric temple. It is 'peripteral,' with 36 massive columns, each 33 feet high, entirely surrounding the cella of the building itself, which rises above the porticos. By a happy afterthought, the 36 columns required for the design were seen to represent the 36 states of the Union at the time of Lincoln's death, and their names were inscribed in the entablature above each column. Five adults holding hands cannot quite embrace the columns.
The Daniel Chester French sculptureThe focus of the memorial is Daniel Chester French's sculpture of Lincoln, seated. French studied many of Matthew Brady's photographs of Lincoln, and depicted the president as worn and pensive, gazing down the reflecting pool at the capital's starkest emblem of the Union, the Washington Monument. One hand is clenched, the other open. Beneath his hands, the Roman fasces, symbols of the authority of the Republic, are sculpted in relief on the seat.
The central cella is flanked by two others. In one, Gettysburg Address is inscribed on the south wall of the memorial, and in the other, Lincoln's second inaugural address is inscribed on the north wall. Murals by Jules Guerin show an angel, representing truth, freeing a slave (on the north wall, above the Gettysburg Address), and the unity of the American North and South (above the Second Inaugural Address).
Like the other monuments on the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial is administered by the National Park Service. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. until midnight, except December 25.
In 1939, the singer Marian Anderson was refused permission to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington because of her skin color. Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to perform from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwide radio audience.
On August 28, 1963, the monument grounds were the site of one of the greatest political rallies in American history, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which proved to be a high point of the American Civil Rights Movement. In front of the building, numerous speeches were given, including Martin Luther King's greatest, "I Have A Dream".
The Lincoln Memorial is shown on the reverse of the United States penny. After a visit to the memorial, Steve Crooks noted that because the Lincoln Memorial is shown in sufficient detail to discern the statue of Lincoln on the reverse of the penny, Abraham Lincoln is the only person to be depicted on both the obverse and reverse of the same United States coin.
External link
- NPS Lincoln Memorial homepage
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lincoln Memorial."
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Memorial University of Newfoundland is a large comprehensive university located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. It is considered to be Atlantic Canada's premier university and one of the region's most important research centres. MUN has a population consisting of 16,000 students, 900 faculty, and 1,500 administrative and support staff.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Memorial University of Newfoundland."
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A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is an old ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public. There are several hundred of these around the world, often associated with maritime museums.Despite the long history of sea travel, the ravages of the elements and the expense of maintenance has resulted in the destruction of nearly all the ships that were ever built, usually by being broken up and sold for scrap. Only a few have survived, sometimes because of historical significance, but more often simply due to luck and circumstance.
Since an old ship tied up at dockside, without attention, will still decay and eventually sink, the practice of recent years has been to form some sort of preservation society, solicit donations from governments and the wealthy, organize volunteer labor from the enthusiasts, and open the restored ship to visitors, usually for a fee.
The restorations have presented an interesting set of problems for historians, who are frequently asked for advice, and the results periodically generate some controversy. For instance, the rigging of sailing ships has almost never survived, and so the rigging plan must be reconstructed from various sources.
Typically the visitor enters via gangplank, wanders around on the deck, then goes below, usually precariously down the original stairways, giving a sense of the crew got around. The interior features restored but inactivated equipment, enhanced with mementos including old photographs, interesting pages from the ship's logs, menus, and the like. Some will add recorded sound effects to heighten the sense of "being there".
A number of the larger museum ships have begun to offer hosting for weddings, meetings, and other events, sleepovers, and on a few ships still seaworthy, cruises. In this category is the Constitution's annual "turnaround", where the old ship is towed out into the harbor and brought back in facing the other way, so as to weather evenly. A place on the deck is by invitation only, and highly prized.
The tourism appeal of a city waterfront graced by an interesting old vessel is such that most port cities of the world now have at least one museum ship, even if it has meant building a replica at great expense.
The first museum ship is reported to be Jason's Argo, which after his expedition for the Golden Fleece, was preserved on a beach and shown to visitors for ages afterwards.
Notable museum ships:
See list of museum ships for a more comprehensive listing.
- HMS Belfast - London, cruiser
- USS Constitution - Boston, oldest commissioned warship afloat
- Cutty Sark - Greenwich, only surviving clipper ship
- Mayflower - Plymouth, Pilgrims ship (replica)
- USS Missouri - Pearl Harbor, battleship
- HMS Wasa - Stockholm
- HMS Victory - Portsmouth, oldest intact warship
- Bluenose II - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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The first memorials to the victims of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack began to take shape online, as hundreds of webmasters posted their own thoughts, links to the Red Cross and other rescue agencies, photos and eyewitness accounts. Numerous online Sept. 11 memorials began appearing a few hours after the attacks, although many of these memorials were only temporary. (For an assessment of the response of webloggers to the attacks, see When blogging came of age .)The Tribute in Light was the first major physical memorial at the World Trade Center site. A permanent memorial at the World Trade Center site is planned, as part of the design by Studio Daniel Libeskind. The plans call for preservation of much of the towers' foundational "bathtub", with glass towers wending around to a 1776-foot high spire.
The first anniversary of the attack brought numerous memorials and services.
81 streets in New York City, mostly in Staten Island, were renamed after victims.
Vigils and services
In New York City, candlelight vigils were held across the city on Wednesday night [September 12] and Friday night [September 14] at 7:00 PM. (A related email hoax spread, encouraging people to "go outside at 7pm so NASA can take a photo". See Misinformation and rumors.)Several thousand citizens march in a candlelight procession through the Adams Morgan district, through Dupont Circle, past dozens of embassies and onto the National Mall, where they join additional thousands of their fellow citizens holding vigil over The Pentagon, just across the Potomac River.
In England, in a break with the long-standing usual procedures at Buckingham Palace, the Queen ordered the Changing of the Guard to be paused for a two minute silence on September 13th, followed by the playing of the American national anthem. A memorial service was held in St. Paul's cathedral, London, attended by the Queen and politicians on the 14th September. A three minute silence at 11 o'clock was held throughout Europe on the 14th. Rev. Billy Graham led a service at Washington National Cathedral, with George W. Bush, the former presidents other than Reagan, Congressional leaders, other top officials in attendance. George W. Bush spoke, beginning with the memorable phrase We are here in the middle hour of our grief.
Vigils and memorial services continued to be held in the following days. On Sunday the families of the victims of the crash of United Airlines flight 93 gathered at the crash site in Pennsylvania for a private ceremony, then joined in a service attended by governor Tom Ridge and First Lady Laura Bush.
Church services are held across the United States and much of the world. Here is [one service held September 16].
On October 4, a memorial Mass is held before 3 PM EDT in St. Patrick's Cathedral for NYFD captain Terence Hatton; Giuliani and Pataki are in attendance. Hatton's wife was Rudy Giuliani's executive assistant, Beth Patrone. She discovered that she was pregnant on September 13th. A service is held after 3 PM EDT in Madison Square Garden for the 74 employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who are missing and presumed dead.
St. Patricks CathedralAt 11 AM: Blessing of the Animals
A memorial is constructed and then set ablaze at the Playa del Fuego event on the October 19-21 weekend [1]
- Special service dedicated to the World Trade Center search and rescue teams at the Church of the Resurrection, 119 E. 74th St., free (212.879.4320). Service begins at 11; blessing is at 12:30 PM.
At noon on November 29, a national memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey in London, attended by relatives of the British dead, and broadcast on UK television and radio.
On May 28, the last steel beam standing at the site was cut down and placed on a flatbed truck in a quiet ceremony.
Physical memorials
Impromptu memorials are put up at Washington Square, with hundreds of candles and flowers, and Union Square, where people write messages on large rolls of paper taped to the ground amidst candles, including a 6-foot high concrete candle. A mural is spray-painted on a wall in the Lower East Side. In the coming days the memorials continue to grow, especially at Union Square Park, where thousands come to congregate, grieve, and celebrate--the statue George Washington in Union Square overtaken as a shrine for peace, memory and the United States, thousands of candles are added, a metal sculpture of the American flag and 2500 roses planted in the shape of the World Trade Center towers.
The Stars and Stripes appear on front stoops, flagpoles, cars, clothing, and on public buildings across the country.
A statue in honor of fallen firefighters, commissioned in 2000 by the Firefighters Association of Missouri, was in New York City en route to Missouri at the time of the attack. It was since donated to New York City in honor of the hundreds of firefighters who lost their lives in the collapse of the World Trade Center.
On October 4, Reverend Brian Jordan, a Franciscan priest, blessed two beams at the crash site which had formed a cross spontaneously, and then had been welded together by ironworkers.
On March 11, the damaged Sphere sculpture formerly in the World Trade Center was dedicated by the city as a temporary memorial in Battery Park City.
Beginning March 11, the Tribute in Light project, 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center created two vertical columns of light, lasting until April 14.
Performances and benefits
On Thursday, September 20, the New York Philharmonic performed a memorial concert of the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem in Avery Fisher Hall. The concert was led off by the national anthem, and on the stage was a flag which appeared on stage during all Philharmonic World War II concerts. All proceeds went to disaster relief. At the request of the Philharmonic director, all applause was held, and the audience filed out in silence.
On Friday, September 21, America: A Tribute to Heroes
On Tuesday, October 2, beginning at 8 PM EDT: Come Together: A Night of John Lennon's Words and Music
- A two-hour live telethon entitled "", with musical performances and spoken tributes by top American performers, was simultaneously broadcast on nearly every single network. Celebrities such as Al Pacino, George Clooney and Jack Nicholson manned the phones.
On Thursday, October 4, at 9 PM EDT: ART Benefit for Sept. 11 Fund
- A tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, was held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks. It had been scheduled before the attack to be taped September 20 and broadcast on October 9 to promote a non-violent world.
On Saturday, October 6, at 6 PM EDT: And the Sun Went Down
- Silent auction of photography, mixed media, painting and sculpture to benefit the victims, at View Bar, 232 8th Ave., free (212.929.2243).
On Sunday, October 7: AMF National Bowl-a-thon
- Luvchild Theatre Ensemble performs a work in progress based on stories of people directly affected by the events of Sept. 11. All proceeds benefit victims and families, at New York Comedy Club, 241 E. 24th St., $10 plus two drink minimum (212.330.9314).
On Monday, October 8: New York City Columbus Day Parade
- National effort to raise $3 million for the Twin Towers Fund. In New York City at 3 PM: Chelsea Piers, $200 per lane. [1]
At 3 p.m. EDT:
- The annual Columbus Day parade is dedicated to victims and rescue and relief workers. The NYPD and FDNY do not march in the parade as they usually do, but send a single fire truck instead, in somber memory.
On Monday, October 8 and October 15, from 11-8: Haircut for Life
- Free Brooklyn Philharmonic concert conducted by Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with music from American composers, including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. The concert is rebroadcast on WNYC at 8 p.m.
On Tuesday, October 9: Benefit for WTC Disaster Fund: Celebration of John Lennon's Birthday
- Roberto Novo and his stylists cut hair to benefit WTC victims at the Roberto Novo Salon, 192 8th Ave., $25 minimum (212.929.1652).
On October 17, Marvel Comics and other members of the comic industry release a tribute book, primarily with drawings of firefighters and police officers, with proceeds going to the victims. Other charity books are also in production.
- The East Village Antifolk scene play John Lennon's and their own songs to raise money. Performances from The Voyces, Joie DBG, Amos, Bionic Finger, Laura Fay, Barry Bliss, Tony Hightower, Linda Draper, Pat Cisarano, Lach, Testosterone Kills, Kenny Davidsen, Jude Kastle, Bree Sharp, Erica Smith, Fenton Lawless, Grey Revell, at the Sidewalk Cafe, 94 Ave. A, two-drink minimum (212-473-7373).
Memorial efforts
Several reporters for The New York Times, including Metro reporter Wendell Jameson, are writing 150-word entries for each of the World Trade Center victims, which highlight brief anecdotes about their lives. They expect the effort to take about 10 months.See also
In Memoriam to add a memorial to an individual victim
Personal Experiences to add a general memorial or tribute by describing your experienceSeptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack - Full Timeline
In Memoriam - Casualties - Missing Persons - Survivors- Personal experiencesDonations - Assistance
External links
- America Survives
- Attack on America: The Victims' Voice
- From 88 Searchlights, an Ethereal Tribute, The New York Times, March 4, 2002
- THE VICTIMS: A Homegrown Memorial Brings Strangers Together
- Statue to Fallen Firefighters to Make Its Home in New York, New York Times, 9/19/2001
- THE PENNSYLVANIA CRASH: 44 Victims Are Remembered, and Lauded, New York Times, 9/18/2001
- NY Times--THE VIGILS: Surrounded by Grief, People Around the World Pause and Turn to Prayer Information to be incorporated
- Pilgrims Flock to Crash Site, The New York Times, September 9, 2002
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack memorials and services."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| mem. | English | Memorial | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MemorialSynonyms: commemoration (n), monument (n), remembrance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta. |
Memory | Suggestion; (information); prompting; Verb: hint, reminder; remembrancer, flapper; memorial; (record); commemoration; (celebration). |
Record | Monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento; (memory); testimonial, medal; commemoration; (celebration). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Memorial |
| English words defined with "memorial": Assian stone ♦ brass ♦ Cahier, cairn, commemorate, coronach, Court of record ♦ Daniel Chester French, dirge ♦ French ♦ immortalise, immortalize ♦ lament, Lin, Lincoln Memorial, Lion of Lucerne ♦ Maya Lin, megalith, megalithic structure, Memoirs, memorial tablet, Memorialist, memorialize, Memorializer, Monumentally, mourning ring ♦ national monument ♦ plaque, presenter, pyramid ♦ record, Remembrancer, requiem, round robin ♦ threnody ♦ Unknown Soldier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "memorial": class I area ♦ INSCRIPTION ♦ Jegar-sahadutha ♦ MEMORIAL DESIGNER, Moabite stone ♦ Patrick's Monument ♦ Sergius Paulus, SUPERVISOR, ENGRAVING, symbol. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Memorial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (application, memorial, petition), Romanian (memorial), Spanish (keepsake, memorial). |
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Screenplays | For a memorial service (Fawlty Towers; writing credit: John Cleese; Connie Booth) Instead of going to a birthday party, I went with my family to a memorial service (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today for Jasper Lamar Crabb (Chinatown; writing credit: Robert Towne) That's a World War One memorial. (The Big Red One; writing credit: Samuel Fuller) | |
Clever | All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | John Ford: Memorial Day 1970 (1974) Memorial (1971) A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) El Memorial del agua (1965) | |
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 | Rep. Paul G. Rogers, chairman of the subcommittee, summed up the hearings at RPMI (Roswell Park Memorial Institute), to pass the National Cancer Act of 1971. Hearings were held on October 11, 1971. He felt that it was symbolic to hold hearings for the National Cancer Act at the oldest cancer research institute in the world. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | The Cary Pavilion at Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI) in 1974. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Frosch Awarded Goddard Memorial Trophy. Credit: NASA. |  | Memorial Plaque for Yuri Gagarin. Credit: NASA. |
 | Ernest Lester Jones Memorial Commemorating his role as Director of C&GS and a founder of the American Legion Plaque presented to C&GS for mounting on bridge of vessel E. LESTER JONES. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | U.S.S. ARIZONA Memorial at Pearl Harbor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Battleship ARIZONA gun turret at the ARIZONA Memorial. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Memorial to those who watch and wait for loved ones to return from the sea. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Cross on Observation Hill erected as memorial to Robert Falcon Scott. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Amundsen-Scott Memorial at South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Arizona Memorial 2" by David Lau Commentary: "AZ mamorial in HI." | "USMC Memorial" by Michael Mingucci Commentary: "The Marine Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery." |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The quarrel of the Vallee des Dappes commenced between France and Switzerland by a memorial from Captain, afterwards General Dufour |
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Business | The offshore area, which is about 66 km. Long, begins from Memorial Bridge downstream to Km. 18 in the Gulf of Thailand. (references) | |
Children | Uganda | There were no developments in the June 1999 case of Peter Masanja, who died after a beating by the Kakungulu Memorial Islamic Institute's director, Hamidulah Llukwago. (references) |
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | Christian churches are permitted to advertise certain church functions openly in the press, such as memorial services. (references) |
Morocco | The King sponsored an inter-faith memorial ceremony on September 16 for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | Steps by the authorities to redress past wrongs such as setting up a memorial to the victims of the February 28 incident have contributed to this process. (references) |
Bahamas | There are three main hospitals in The Bahamas (the Government-owned hospitals, Princess Margaret in Nassau and Rand Memorial in Freeport, and the privately-owned Doctors Hospital in Nassau). (references) | |
Yemen | The United States established diplomatic relations with the Imamate in 1946. A resident legation, later elevated to embassy status, was opened in Taiz (the capital at the time) on March 16, 1959and moved to Sanaa in 1966. The United States was one of the first countries to recognize the Yemen Arab Republic, doing so on December19, 1962. A major U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program constructed the Mocha-Taiz-Sanaa highway and the Kennedy memorial water project in Taiz, as well as many smaller projects. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Ali was killed while organizing a memorial meeting for Mr. Purushotham, another APCLC leader. (references) |
Russia | The NGO Memorial claimed that federal military forces have detained a total of 15,000 persons from Chechnya. (references) | |
Russia | Memorial estimated that the number of individuals unaccounted for was somewhere between several hundred and a thousand. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | September 10 was celebrated as a memorial day to victims of the Holocaust. (references) |
Ukraine | At the same time, local nationalists remained opposed to the use of Jewish symbols or Hebrew in the memorial. (references) | |
Germany | Since its dedication, a memorial to Guendoul has been desecrated a number of times by suspected rightwing extremists. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | The U.S. Mission in the Philippines observes the following U.S. public holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. (references) |
Moldova | New Year's day (January 1), Christmas (January 7 and 8), International Women's Day (March 8), two days of Easter determined by the Orthodox Church's calendar, Memorial Day (the first Monday a week after Easter), Victory Day (May 9), National Day (August 27) and Our Language Day (August 31) are celebrated in Moldova. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness. |
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George Will | We don't have a declared war, but we didn't have a declared war in Korea. That was a war. We didn't have a declared war in Vietnam and we have a Vietnam War memorial. |
Kerry Kelly | I think in addition to the grief process, which has really been extended because we have had memorial services and funerals that began soon after this event and have continued and will continue through, people are dealing with their own stress reactions. |
Nellie Connally | I've been to that museum thing one time. I went back one time when they put a memorial plaque on the place where it all happened. And that's all. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. |
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| "Memorial" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.51% of the time. "Memorial" is used about 1,283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.51% | 1,251 | 6,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.48% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.01% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,283 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "memorial": Delaware Memorial Bridge ♦ in memorial ♦ Lincoln Memorial ♦ memorial day ♦ memorial monument ♦ memorial park ♦ memorial prayer ♦ memorial rose ♦ memorial service ♦ memorial slab ♦ memorial stone ♦ memorial tablet ♦ memorial words ♦ the unknown soldier's memorial ♦ Theodore Roosevelt Memorial National Park ♦ war memorial. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "memorial": war-memorial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "memorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | monument (monument), pllakë përkujtimore, përmendore (monument, refresher, touching), përkujtim (commemoration). (various references) | |
Arabic | مذكرة (aide-memoire, memo, memoir, memorandum, minutes, motion, note, notebook, pocket book, reminder, warrant), نصب تذكاري (monument, pillar, stone, trophy), تمثال (bust, dummy, effigy, image, monument, statue, tombstone), تذكاري (commemorative, honorary, monumental), عريضة (petition, request), طلب التماس, طلب (appeal, application, ask, call, call for, demand, desire, instance, ordain, order, place, quest, reclaim, request, require, requisition, rush order, seek, tune), ذكرى (memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, reminiscent, souvenir), ذاكري (mnemonic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който служи да напомня, в памет на, обичай (consuetude, convention, custom, habit, institution, manner, manners, observance, practice, praxis), записка (memo, memorandum), празник (feast, feast day, festival, fete, gala-day, holiday, playday, red letter day), петиция (petition, plea, representation), паметник (hoarstone, monument), паметен (eventful, memorable, notable), писмен паметник (monument), изложение (aspect, exhibition, exposition, exposure, fair, position, presentment, prospect, relation, representation, showing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 追悼 (mourning), 纪念 (Commemorate, Commemorated, Commemorating, Commemorative). (various references) | |
Czech | pomník (monument, statue), pamìtní spis, pamìtní (commemorative), památník (monument). (various references) | |
Farsi | یادگار (Memory, Relic, Souvenir, Token), یادبود (Memory, Reminiscence, Reminiscent, Souvenir, Token), لوحه یادبود, وابسته به حافظه . (various references) | |
Finnish | muistomerkki. (various references) | |
French | mémorial (memoir), mémoratif, requête, pétition, commémoratif. (various references) | |
German | Denkmal (monument). (various references) | |
Greek | μνημόσυνο (commemoration, requiem), μνημείο (bier, monument). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצבת זכרון, אזכרה (commemoration, memorial prayer, remembrance), זכרון (commemoration, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | peranyag összefoglalása, feljegyzés (entry, memo, memorandum, minute, note, record, recording), emlékmû (monument), emlékmű (monument), emlékirat (Aide-memoir, memoir), emlékeztető (commemorative, memento, suggestive), előterjesztés (plea, presentation, proposal, putting), beadvány (petition, plaint). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanda peringatan. (various references) | |
Italian | monumento (monument), memoriale (factum), sacrario (sacrarium), commemorativo (commemorative). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 追悼 (mourning). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おぼえがき (memo, memorandum, note, protocol), ついとう (mourning, tracking down and killing), けんぱく (petition). (various references) | |
Korean | 기념하는 (Commemorated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emorialmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | monumento comemorativo (memory), memorial (application, petition), memorativo, que faz lembrar (reminiscent), crônica (chronicle, history, story), comemorativo (commemorative). (various references) | |
Romanian | monument comemorativ, memoriu (factum, memoir, memoirs, statement, transactions), memorial, pomenire (alms, commemoration, mention, mentioning, reference, remembrance, requiem), cronicã (Chronicle, commentary, notice, reports, round up), comemorativ (commemorative), amintire (keepsake, memento, memory, mention, mind, phantom, recollection, relic, remembrance, souvenir, token). (various references) | |
Russian | воспоминание (memory, mind, recall, recollection, remember, reminiscence), мемориальный (commemorative), мемориал, записка (chit, love letter, memorandum, message, note, scrips), памятник (monument). (various references) | |
Scottish | cuimhneachan (keep-sake). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | spomenik (cenotaph, monument), peticija (petition), komemorativan (commemorative), komemoracija (commemoration). (various references) | |
Spanish | conmemorativo (commemorative). (various references) | |
Swedish | minnesmärke (monument). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งเตือนความทรงจำ, ซึ่งเป็นอนุสรณ์. (various references) | |
Turkish | hatırlatıcı (suggestive), bildiri (announcement, asseveration, bulletin, communique, edict, manifesto, memo, memorandum, notice, notification, proclamation, report, service, throwaway, writ), anma töreni (commemoration), anıt (monument), anısına yapılmış, abide (monument), önerge (motion, proposal, resolution, resolve). (various references) | |
Turkmen | aяat (memorial ceremony). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | меморіальний (commemorative), меморіал (blotter), меморандум (memo, memorandum, notandum), пам'ятник (monument), пам'ятний (commemorative, memorable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tượng kỷ niệm, bản kiến nghị, đài kỷ niệm (cenotaph, monument, obelisk). (various references) | |
Welsh | coffadwriaethol, cofeb (memorandum). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | libello, libellum, memoriale, monumenta, monumenti, monumentis, monumento, monumentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O de atenisaV autw kai emfoboV genomenoV eipen ti estin kurie eipen de autw ai proseucai sou kai ai elehmosunai sou anebhsan eiV mnhmosunon enwpion tou qeou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At ille intuens eum timore correptus dixit quid est domine dixit autem illi orationes tuae et elemosynae tuae ascenderunt in memoriam in conspectu Dei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he bihelde hym, and was a dred, and seide, Who art thou, Lord? And he seide to hym, Thi preieris and thin almesdedis han stied vp in to mynde, in the siyt of the Lord. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | When he looked on him he was afrayde and sayde: what is it lorde? He sayde vnto him. Thy prayers and thy almeses ar come vp into remembraunce before God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thy alms are come up for a memorial before God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Albanian | dhe ai, duke ia ngulur sytë dhe shumë i trembur, i tha: ''Ç'është, Zot?''. Atëherë engjëlli i tha: ''Lutjet e tua dhe lëmoshat e tua, janë ngjitur para Perëndisë, si një kujtesë; |
| Cebuano | Ug siya mitutok kaniya uban sa kalisang, ug miingon, "Unsa man unta, Senyor?" Ug siya mitubag kaniya, "Ang imong mga pag-ampo ug mga paglimos misulbong sa itaas aron mahimong handumanan diha sa atubangan sa Dios. |
| Croatian | Zagleda se u nj pa mu prestrašen reèe: "Što je, Gospodine?" A on njemu: "Molitve su tvoje i milostinje uzišle kao žrtva podsjetnica pred Boga. |
| Danish | Men han stirrede på ham og blev forfærdet og sagde: "Hvad er det, Herre?" Han sagde til ham: "Dine Bønner og dine Almisser ere opstegne til Ihukommelse for Gud. |
| Dutch | En hij, de ogen op hem houdende, en zeer bevreesd geworden zijnde, zeide: Wat is het Heere? En hij zeide tot hem: Uw gebeden en uw aalmoezen zijn tot gedachtenis opgekomen voor God. |
| Finnish | Tämä loi katseensa häneen ja sanoi peljästyneenä: "Mikä on, Herra?" Enkeli sanoi hänelle: "Sinun rukouksesi ja almusi ovat tulleet muistoon Jumalan edessä. |
| French | Les regards fixés sur lui, et saisi d`effroi, il répondit: Qu`est-ce, Seigneur? Et l`ange lui dit: Tes prières et tes aumônes sont montées devant Dieu, et il s`en est souvenu. |
| German | Er aber sah ihn an, erschrak und sprach: HERR, was ist's? Er aber sprach zu ihm: Deine Gebete und deine Almosen sind hinaufgekommen ins Gedächtnis vor Gott. |
| Hungarian | Õ pedig szemeit reá függesztve és megrémülve monda: Mi az, Uram? Az pedig monda néki: A te könyörgéseid és alamizsnáid felmentek Isten elébe emlékezetnek okáért. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kornelius memandang malaikat itu dengan ketakutan lalu berkata, "Ada apa Tuan?" Malaikat itu menjawab, "Doamu dan kemurahan hatimu sudah diterima oleh Allah dan Allah ingat kepadamu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ia pun menatap malaekat itu dengan ketakutannya sambil berkata, "Apakah ini, ya Tuhan?" Maka katanya kepadanya, "Segala doamu dan sedekahmu sudah naik menjadi peringatan kepada Allah. |
| Maori | Na ka titiro matatau atu ia ki a ia, ka wehi, ka mea, he aha, e te Ariki? Ka ki tera ki a ia, Kua puta ake au inoi me au mahi atawhai, hei whakamahara ki te aroaro o te Atua. |
| Norwegian | Men han stirret på ham og blev forferdet og sa: Hvad er det, Herre? Han svarte ham: Dine bønner og dine almisser er steget op til ihukommelse for Gud. |
| Rumanian | Corneliu s`a uitat yintq la el, s`a knfricowat, wi a rqspuns: ,,Ce este, Doamne?`` Wi kngerul i -a zis: ,,Rugqciunile wi milosteniile tale s`au suit knaintea lui Dumnezeu, wi El Wi -a adus aminte de ele. |
| Shuar | Kurniriuá tutai, Yusa suntarin ashamak iimia pujumiayi. Tura "¿Warimpiait, Uunta?" Tímiayi. Tutai Yusa suntari Tímiayi "Ame seamun Yus anturtamkai. Tura atsumainia nu yayakmin Yus shiir Enentáimturmawai' Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Con los ojos puestos en el ángel y espantado, él dijo: --¿Qué hay, Señor? Y le dijo: --Tus oraciones y tus obras de misericordia han subido como memorial ante la presencia de Dios. |
| Swahili | Kornelio alimkodolea macho huyo malaika kwa hofu, akamwambia, "Kuna nini Mheshimiwa?" Huyo malaika akamwambia, "Mungu amezipokea sala na sadaka zako kwa maskini. |
| Swedish | Han betraktade honom förskräckt och frågade: "Vad är det, herre?" Då sade ängeln till honom: "Dina böner och dina allmosor hava uppstigit till Gud och äro i åminnelse hos honom. |
| Uma | Me'eka' -i Kornelius mponaa mala'eka toei. Metompoi' -i: "Napa-die Pue'?" Na'uli' mala'eka toei: "Goe' -i Alata'ala mpo'epe posampaya-nu, pai' na'inca kamanara-nu mpotulungi tokabu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "memorial": memorialise, memorialised, memorialises, memorialising, memorialist, memorialists, memorialize, memorialized, memorializes, memorializing, memorially, memorials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "memorial": immemorial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "memorial": immemorially. (additional references) | |
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"Memorial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mammerial, mamoreal, memmorial, memofile, memora, memoria, memoriae, memorie, memorielle, mesotidal, minorial, motorial, nemorosa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "memorial" (pronounced mumô"rēul) |
| 8 | m u m ô" r ē u l | immemorial. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u l | advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, territorial, janitorial, nomenclatorial, pictorial, professorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, senatorial, tutorial. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, aerial, antibacterial, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, endometrial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, immaterial, imperial, terrestrial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, mercurial, ministerial, secretarial, serial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: immoral, loamier, malmier. | |
-2 letters: limmer, mailer, maimer, memoir, moiler, morale, remail. | |
-3 letters: aimer, amole, ariel, email, lamer, lemma, maile, mamie, miler, mimeo, mimer, moira, moire, molar, morae, moral, morel, oiler, oriel, ramie, realm, reoil. | |
-4 letters: aero, alme, aloe, amie, amir, ammo, aril, earl, emir, ilea, imam, lair, lame, lari, lear, liar, lier, lima, lime. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: memorials, oriflamme. | |
+2 letters: commercial, immemorial, memorially, oriflammes, semiformal. | |
+3 letters: commercials, immortalise, immortalize, lamelliform, memorabilia, memorialise, memorialist, memorialize, memorizable, momentarily, recommittal. | |
+4 letters: aeroembolism, commercially, immemorially, immoderately, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, melodramatic, memorability, memorialised, memorialises, memorialists, memorialized, memorializes, metronomical, microclimate, recommittals, uncommercial. | |
+5 letters: aeroembolisms, ceremonialism, commercialise, commercialism, commercialist, commerciality, commercialize, complimentary, immortalities, immortalizers, intercommunal, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, melodramatize, memorialising, memorializing, microclimates, microfilament, microfilmable, morphemically, noncommercial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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