keepsake

«keepsake» in Mova's school dictionary: A small thing you keep to help you remember a person… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a keepsake, keepsakes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small thing you keep to help you remember a person, place or time. tree →

2) A gift given so the person will remember the giver. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and family life a keepsake can be a photo, a lock of hair, a shell from a holiday, or a ring from a grandparent who has died. It tells the reader the thing is precious for its memories, not its price. Phrases: «as a keepsake», «a treasured keepsake», «keepsake box».

examples

• Gran gave me her old brooch as a keepsake. tree →
• I keep the shell as a keepsake of our beach holiday. tree →
• The ticket is a keepsake from my first concert. tree →
• She kept his letters as keepsakes. tree →
• Our class made keepsake boxes for our memories. tree →
• After Grandpa passed away, each grandchild chose a keepsake. tree →
• But at parting the little girl took an elder-blossom from her breast and gave it to him as a keepsake. tree →

note

Countable, one word. Similar: memento, souvenir (a souvenir is often bought on a trip; a keepsake is more personal).

In the corpora

• A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it.
• Un souvenir is a keepsake, but in French it also means any memory; se souvenir means to remember.
• Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «keepsake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.