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Meaning of 'memorial' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Memorial [ a.]
- Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
- Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
2 . Memorial [ n.]
- Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
- A memorandum; a record.
- A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.
- Memory; remembrance.
- A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

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