Other forms: souvenirs
A souvenir is the little thing you buy on holiday to remember the place. Bring back a souvenir, souvenir shop, a cheap souvenir.
Its value is entirely in the association, which is why the same object is precious at home and worthless in the shop it came from. The word is French for a memory, from a verb meaning to come to mind — a souvenir is a thing that reminds. Note memento, which does the same job.
1nounsouvenirA small thing bought to remember a place.
“I bought a little model of the Eiffel Tower as a souvenir of Paris.”
souvenir is a keepsake.
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English, today
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From souvenir. French souvenir literally “memory”. Compare memento.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA