Other forms: memorials
A memorial is something built or held so that a person or an event is not forgotten. A war memorial, a memorial service, a memorial to the miners.
In Britain the war memorial is the stone in almost every village, and Remembrance Sunday is the day people gather at it. A memorial service is a gathering after a death, often weeks after the funeral and more public. As an adjective, memorial means done in memory of somebody — a memorial lecture, a memorial garden. Note that in America Memorial Day is a national holiday for the war dead.
1nounmemorialA structure built so that somebody or something is remembered.
“The memorial lists two hundred and six names.”
2adjectivedoneDone in memory of somebody.
“There is a memorial service on the anniversary.”
memorial is something built for remembering.
Latin memoriale comes from memoria, memory — the same root as memory, remember and memoir. A memorial is a thing for remembering with, and the word says nothing about what shape it takes.
Latin
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English, today
memorial
From Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. by surface analysis, memory + -ial.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA