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Definition: Souvenir |
SouvenirNoun1. Something of sentimental value. 2. A reminder of past events. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "souvenir" was first used: 1775. (references) |
Etymology: Souvenir \Sou`ve*nir\, noun. [French expression, from souvenir to remember, from the Latin expression subvenire to come up, come to mind; sub under venire to come, akin to English come. See Come, and compare to Subvention.]. (references) |
Synonyms: SouvenirSynonyms: keepsake (n), memento (n), relic (n), token (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Memory | Things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Souvenir |
| English words defined with "souvenir": favor, favour ♦ party favor, party favour. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "souvenir": sheriff. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Souvenir" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (keepsake, memento, souvenir), Dutch (keepsake, memento, souvenir), French (keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, souvenir, token), German (souvenir), Italian (souvenir), Portuguese (souvenir), Spanish (memento, souvenir), Swedish (keepsake). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A little souvenir from the old home town (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) And each kid to receive souvenir baseball cap. That's it, Marcie (A Charlie Brown Celebration; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) I like history too. Maybe when this is over we can to the souvenir shop (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Photo souvenir (1960) Souvenir d'Italie (1957) Aux yeux du souvenir (1948) La Chanson du souvenir (1936) L' Obsession du souvenir (1913) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Caption: Charles Edison Awarding Souvenir Medals to Gordon Burns and Joseph Kingsbury, Former Edison Scholarship Contestants, on the Tenth Anniversary of the 1930 Competition; West Orange, NJ; August 24, 1940; {13.200/52} (jpg). |  | Souvenir pennant from the ship, circa 1913. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Good new for the Philippines--President Truman holds souvenir pens used in the signing ceremony of the Philippine Rehabilitation and Trade Bill at the White House after the signing. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Souvenir shop in Union Station, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | El Centro (vicinity), California. Souvenir stand of the Imperial County Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Souvenir shop, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kearney, Nebraska. Souvenir shop along U.S. highway number thirty and restaurant (covered wagon). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Grover Cleveland's birthplace, in Caldwell, New Jersey. Souvenir plates with Mrs. Cleveland, four candidates running. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Donnez tous à l'Oeuvre du Souvenir de la France à ses marins. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Donnez tous à l'Oeuvre du Souvenir de la France à ses marins. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Wooden clogs" by Guiga Müller Commentary: "Souvenir from Holland (where else?)." | "NY city globe 1" by Annette Gulick Commentary: "One of those souvenir snow globes which also has a music box - this one has about 7 of the major NY city sites of interest." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | gentle, but lost souvenir. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There are currently 7,500 hotels and more than 30,000 other establishments offering rooms, apartments, or villas for rent. There are 4,000 travel agencies, 3,000 sea-tourism enterprises for yachting, cruises etc. And another 3,500 companies renting cars, motorbikes, etc. Also, there are a vast number small businesses, such as restaurants, taverns, discos, bars and souvenir and gift shops, which cater largely to the tourist industry. (references) | |
Discrimination | Belize | These occupations include fishing, souvenir manufacturing, sightseeing tours, accounting, insurance, real estate, and legal services. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | The Government of Bahrain tourism budget for the year 2000-2001 is USD 7.7 million in comparison to USD 1.33 in 1999. According to Dr. Kadhem Rajab, Undersecretary Tourism Affairs, 75 percent of the budget is allocated to a program to restore historic sites, as well as to develop service infrastructure, information centers and lecture rooms in historic sites, souvenir shops, restrooms and other infrastructure services. (references) |
Travel | Panama | Facilities usually include: business centers, swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness centers, clothing and souvenir shops, casinos, restaurants, coffee shops and bars. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SHERIFF, n. In America the chief executive office of a country, whose most characteristic duties, in some of the Western and Southern States, are the catching and hanging of rogues. John Elmer Pettibone Cajee (I write of him with little glee) Was just as bad as he could be. 'Twas frequently remarked: "I swon! The sun has never looked upon So bad a man as Neighbor John." A sinner through and through, he had This added fault: it made him mad To know another man was bad. In such a case he thought it right To rise at any hour of night And quench that wicked person's light. Despite the town's entreaties, he Would hale him to the nearest tree And leave him swinging wide and free. Or sometimes, if the humor came, A luckless wight's reluctant frame Was given to the cheerful flame. While it was turning nice and brown, All unconcerned John met the frown Of that austere and righteous town. "How sad," his neighbors said, "that he So scornful of the law should be -- An anar c, h, i, s, t." (That is the way that they preferred To utter the abhorrent word, So strong the aversion that it stirred.) "Resolved," they said, continuing, "That Badman John must cease this thing Of having his unlawful fling. "Now, by these sacred relics" -- here Each man had out a souvenir Got at a lynching yesteryear -- "By these we swear he shall forsake His ways, nor cause our hearts to ache By sins of rope and torch and stake. "We'll tie his red right hand until He'll have small freedom to fulfil The mandates of his lawless will." So, in convention then and there, They named him Sheriff. The affair Was opened, it is said, with prayer. J. Milton Sloluck |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Souvenir" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Souvenir" is used about 251 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) | 98.8% | 248 | 18,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 251 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "souvenir": as a souvenir ♦ souvenir shop. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "souvenir": souvenir-hunters, souvenir-hunting, souvenir-shops. | |
Containing "souvenir": restaurant-cum-souvenir-shop. | |
| 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 "souvenir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aandenking (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Albanian | kujtim (anamnesis, memento, memory, mind, recall, recollection, remembrance, token). (various references) | |
Arabic | تذكار (keepsake, memento, remembrance, token, trophy), ذكرى (memorial, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, reminiscent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сувенир. (various references) | |
Catalan | record (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Chinese | 表記 (something given as a token), 纪念品 (Fairing, fairings, keepsake, memento), 紀念品 . (various references) | |
Czech | suvenýr (knick knack, token), upomínka (demand, dunning letter, remembrance, reminder, token), památka (keepsake, memento, memory, monument, relic, remembrance). (various references) | |
Danish | souvenir (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Dutch | souvenir (keepsake, memento), gedenkschrift (keepsake, memento), aandenken (keepsake, memento, memory, recollection). (various references) | |
Esperanto | memorigaĵo (keepsake, memento), memoraĵo (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Farsi | یادگار (Memorial, Memory, Relic, Token), یادبود (Memorial, Memory, Reminiscence, Reminiscent, Token), سوغات , خاطره (Impression, Memento, Memoir, Memory, Reminiscence, Reminiscent), ره اورد (Gift, Present). (various references) | |
Finnish | muistolahja (parting gift), muistoesine (memento), muisto (keepsake, memory), matkamuisto. (various references) | |
French | souvenir. (various references) | |
Frisian | oantins (keepsake, memento), oantinken (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
German | Andenken (keepsake, keepsakes, memento, memory, recollection, remembrance, souvenirs, token, trophy), Reiseandenken. (various references) | |
Greek | ενθύμιο (keepsake, memento, remembrance, remeobrance, reminder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזכרת (keepsake, memento, record, remembrance, trophy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | emléktárgy (keepsake, remembrance, token), ajándéktárgy (presentation), ajándék (donation, gift, gratuity, largesse, present, presentation, testimonial). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cindur mata (sweetheart), bingkisan (gift, parcel). (various references) | |
Italian | souvenir, ricordo (keepsake, memory, recollection, record, remembrance, reminder), memoria (brief, heirloom, keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recollection, remembrance, storage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 記念物 (memento), 記念品 (memento), お土産 (present), 土産 (present, product of the land), 形見 (memento), 引き出物 (gift), 引出物 (gift), スーパー受信機 (soup, souvenir shop, Sufi, suite, superheterodyne receiver, superviser, sweep, sweeper, sweet, sweet corn, sweet home, sweet melon, sweet pea, sweet potato, sweet spot, sweetheart, Swiss, Swissrama, switch, switchback, switch-hitter, switching, Switzerland), 忘れ形見 (keepsake, memento, posthumous child). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おみやげ (present), きねんひん (memento), きねんぶつ (memento), ひきでもの (gift), かたみ (memento, one side of a body, shoulders), わすれがたみ (keepsake, memento, posthumous child), スーベニア , スーブニール , みやげ (present). (various references) | |
Korean | 기념품. (various references) | |
Manx | cooinaghtane (keepsake, reminder). (various references) | |
Norwegian | minnesmerke (keepsake, memento, monument). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ouvenirsay.(various references) | |
Polish | pamiątka (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Portuguese | recordação (keepsake, memento, mind, recall, recollection, remembrance), lembrança (felicity, keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recollection, refresher, relic, remembrance, reminder). (various references) | |
Romanian | suvenir (keepsake, memory, remembrance), amintire (keepsake, memento, memorial, memory, mention, mind, phantom, recollection, relic, remembrance, token). (various references) | |
Russian | сувенир (favour, memento). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | suvenir, uspomena (keepsake, memento, memory, remembrance, reminiscence, token). (various references) | |
Spanish | recuerdo (association, commemoration, keepsake, memento, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminder, reminiscence, token). (various references) | |
Swedish | minne (keepsake, mem, memento, memory, mind, recall, recollection, relic, remembrance, reminiscence, storage, token). (various references) | |
Turkish | hatıra eşya (remembrance), hatıra (commemorative, heirloom, keepsake, memento, memory, recollection, relic, remembrance, survival, token), andaç (keepsake, memento). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яadygдrlik (monument). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сувенір (memento, relic, remembrance, token), спогад (anamnesis, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật kỷ niệm (monument). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | subvenire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "souvenir": souvenirs. (additional references) | |
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"Souvenir" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jouvenet, Jouventin, osvoenie, souveneer, souveneir, souvenier, souvenior, sovenir, suvenir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "souvenir" (pronounced suw'vuni"r) |
| 5 | -v u n i" r | veneer. |
| 4 | -u n i" r | auctioneer, bioengineer, conventioneer, domineer, electioneer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, reengineer. |
| 3 | -n i" r | near, Rainier, sneer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: envious, nervous, niveous, renvois, urinose, version. | |
-2 letters: envois, insure, inures, irones, nosier, ovines, renvoi, rouens, rusine, senior, unrove, urines, ursine, venous, vinous, vireos. | |
-3 letters: envoi, eosin, euros, inure, irone, irons, nevus, noirs, noise, noris, nurse, ornis, osier, ourie, ovens, overs, ovine, reins, resin, rinse, risen, riven, rives, rosin, rouen, roues, rouse, roven, roves. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: overusing, revulsion, souvenirs, verminous. | |
+2 letters: adenovirus, involucres, outserving, overinsure, revulsions, subversion. | |
+3 letters: enterovirus, intravenous, overanxious, overinsured, overinsures, overissuing, overnourish, oversaucing, oversudsing, oversupping, revolutions, subversions, supervision, unobtrusive, variousness, vertiginous, voluntaries. | |
+4 letters: adenoviruses, constructive, countervails, counterviews, grievousness, griseofulvin, nonintrusive, nonpurposive, nonuniversal, overcautions, overdiscount, overfocusing, overhuntings, overindulges, overinsuring, overissuance, oversanguine, overstuffing, perviousness, previousness, revaluations, rhinoviruses, supervention, supervisions, undiscovered, unresponsive, vigorousness, virtuousness, volunteerism. | |
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