• IPA: /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
• (horse-hoarse) IPA: /məˈmoʊɹi.əl/

memorial (plural memorials)

1. A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.
2. A service of remembrance or commemoration.
3. (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
4. (obsolete) A note to aid the memory; a memorandum.

• French: mémorial
• German: Denkmal, Mahnmal
• Russian: мемориа́л

• German: Gedenkgottesdienst
• Russian: поминове́ние
• Spanish: conmemoración

memorial

1. Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

   a memorial building

   • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book XI”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗:

     There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.

2. Contained in the memory.

   a memorial possession

3. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

   • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.

• French: mémoriel
• German: Gedenk-
• Spanish: conmemorativo