MEMORANDUM (memoranda)

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Irregular inflected form: memoranda   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does memorandum mean? 

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

1. a written proposal or reminder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORANDUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written proposal or reminder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

memo; memoranda; memorandum

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

note (a brief written record)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memorandum"):

aide-memoire; position paper (a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications))

 Context examples 

There were the pencilled marks and memorandums on the wainscot by the window. He had done it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As he spoke he took from his pocket-book the memorandum which had been in Lucy's breast, and which she had torn in her sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He then referred to a memorandum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the inside of the cover was a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and ‘Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register’ written beneath.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Letter from Lord Merrow, report from Sir Charles Hardy, memorandum from Belgrade, note on the Russo-German grain taxes, letter from Madrid, note from Lord Flowers——Good heavens! what is this?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This conversation was not ended under five audiences, each of several hours; and the king heard the whole with great attention, frequently taking notes of what I spoke, as well as memorandums of what questions he intended to ask me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But he was careless and immethodical, like other men, about those things; and when I came to examine his papers, I found it with others still more trivial, from different people scattered here and there, while many letters and memorandums of real importance had been destroyed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may tell Miss Smith that I forgot to make a memorandum of the darning needles, but she shall have some papers sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to give out more than one at a time to each pupil: if they have more, they are apt to be careless and lose them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had never so much as thought of making one, so far as his papers afforded any evidence; for there was no kind of hint, sketch, or memorandum, of any testamentary intention whatever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)