memorial

«memorial» in Mova's school dictionary: a statue, stone, building or event that helps people… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a memorial, memorials); adjective (memorial)

meaning for a pupil

1) A memorial is a statue, stone, building or event that helps people remember a person who died or something that happened. tree →

2) Memorial describes something made in someone's memory. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, war memorials list the names of soldiers who died; people lay wreaths of poppies there on Remembrance Day, Anzac Day or Memorial Day. A memorial service is held to remember someone after they die. Phrases: "war memorial", "memorial service", "memorial garden", "in memorial of" — say "in memory of".

examples

• We laid poppies at the war memorial. tree →
• The bench is a memorial to my great-grandma. tree →
• The town built a memorial to the miners. tree →
• We went to a memorial service for our old teacher. tree →
• The school planted a memorial garden. tree →
• Names are carved on the stone memorial. tree →
• Memorial Day is a holiday in the USA. tree →
• No king has a more splendid memorial. tree →

note

Countable. Related: memory, remember, memorise. Say "in memory of", not "in memorial of".

In the corpora

• Families visit graves, send cards, mark the anniversary, hold memorial services and even put up benches with little plaques.
• "Memorial park" is an American word for a cemetery.
• "Celebration of life" means a funeral or memorial service with a cheerful mood.
• Being noisy at funerals and memorials can hurt grieving people for a long time.
• During a memorial silence you stand still and stay quiet.

Trees and pragmatics

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