What is another word for memorials?

Pronunciation: [məmˈɔːɹɪəlz] (IPA)

Memorials serve as a way to remember people or events that have impacted our lives in significant ways. Whether it's a monument, statue, plaque, or obelisk, the purpose is the same: to ensure that we never forget those who have gone before us. There are many other words that can be used as synonyms for "memorials," including tributes, remembrances, commemorations, memoranda, and testimonials. Each of these words captures a slightly different aspect of what a memorial represents, but all speak to the importance of preserving memories and honoring those who have made a lasting impact on the world.

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Usage examples for Memorials

But she treasures any little memorials of their early devotion, and feeling that he is great and wise, She dwells on him with faithful eyes, 'I cannot understand: I love.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
I implore you with all my heart, ask anything of me, but that I should leave this without once more seeing my poor father, without the sacred memorials of my mother which I keep at home.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
To these places women will come to weep when the war is done, and the stones will be memorials of brave hearts who came here in the darkness with just a glance at the lights in the sky and a word of "Carry on, men," before they fell.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs

Famous quotes with Memorials

  • The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
  • The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
    Ronald Reagan
  • 'Tis soothing, oh ! most soothing to the heart, To rove 'mid scenes where once we have been blest! Each tree, each blossom, has a thrilling charm; They seem memorials of those happier hours : The very sigh that tells they are no more, Is sweet unto the spirit; former days, And former feelings, rise upon the soul, Dear as they once have been.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • In endeavouring to recall a few memorials of Mrs. Lawrence Burgoyne, I do it on the same principle that scientific men collect the bones of a mammoth — the whole exists no longer ; but there are sufficient remains to show that it did exist.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Over Babiy Yar there are no memorials. The steep hillside like a rough inscription. I am frightened. Today I am as old as the Jewish race.
    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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