MEMENTO (mementoes)

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Irregular inflected form: mementoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does memento mean? 

• MEMENTO (noun)
  The noun MEMENTO has 1 sense:

1. a reminder of past events

  Familiarity information: MEMENTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMENTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reminder of past events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

memento; souvenir

Hypernyms ("memento" is a kind of...):

reminder (an experience that causes you to remember something)

 Context examples 

I have worn it since the day I lost my only treasure, as a memento of her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were still some subjects, indeed, under which she believed they must always tremble—the mention of a chest or a cabinet, for instance—and she did not love the sight of japan in any shape: but even she could allow that an occasional memento of past folly, however painful, might not be without use.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The scene-painter was gone, having spoilt only the floor of one room, ruined all the coachman's sponges, and made five of the under-servants idle and dissatisfied; and Sir Thomas was in hopes that another day or two would suffice to wipe away every outward memento of what had been, even to the destruction of every unbound copy of Lovers' Vows in the house, for he was burning all that met his eye.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And the lock of hair—that too I had always carried about me in the same pocket-book, which was now searched by Madam with the most ingratiating virulence,—the dear lock—all, every memento was torn from me.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny felt that she must; and though she had not waited for that sentence to be thinking of Edmund, such a memento made her particularly awake to his idea, and she fancied him sitting in that room again and again, perhaps in the very spot where she sat now, listening with constant delight to the favourite air, played, as it appeared to her, with superior tone and expression; and though pleased with it herself, and glad to like whatever was liked by him, she was more sincerely impatient to go away at the conclusion of it than she had been before; and on this being evident, she was so kindly asked to call again, to take them in her walk whenever she could, to come and hear more of the harp, that she felt it necessary to be done, if no objection arose at home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

'You like Thornfield?' she said, lifting her finger; and then she wrote in the air a memento, which ran in lurid hieroglyphics all along the house-front, between the upper and lower row of windows, 'Like it if you can! Like it if you dare!'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When you are at Madagascar, or at the Cape, or in India, would it be a consolation to have that memento in your possession? or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)