memory – English noun declension

English noun forms of memory

Noun: memory
Singularmemory
Pluralmemories

Sample Sentences

  • Memory is a facility common to all animals.
  • And they say goldfish have no memory. I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise every time. [1998, “Little Plastic Castle”, in Little Plastic Castle, performed by Ani DiFranco:]
  • I have no memory of that event.
  • My wedding is one of my happiest memories.
  • Sam and his friends will never forget the happy memories of the field trip to France.
  • I know I can't hide from my memory / Though day after day I've tried / I keep sayin', she'll be back / But today again I've lied [1971, Chi-Lites, “Have You Seen Her”, in (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People:]
  • This data passes from the CPU to the memory.
  • My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need. Hah. I know better now. [1987 July 27, Jerry Pournelle, “Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full”, in InfoWorld, volume 9, number 30, InfoWorld Media Group Inc, page 46:]
  • in recent memory
  • in living memory
  • memory metal
  • memory plastic
  • These weeds are memories of those worser hours. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:]
  • After he saw her a few more times, Mr. Cherkasky asked Ms. Cochrane out on a date in May 2008 to Central Park. He brought along some games to break the ice, and Ms. Cochrane brought cupcakes. They found a quiet place to sit and played Memory and Yahtzee, both of which were new to Ms. Cochrane. [2010 July 30, Paula Schwartz, “Lyndsea Cochrane and Ethan Cherkasky”, in The New York Times:]
  • One example of that would be a memory game that I originally worked on with a friend of mine at Ovrflo Media some time ago. If you aren't familiar with the game of memory, it's a matching game where you are presented with several cards in the facedown position. [2010, Jason Fincanon, “Advergaming and Applications”, in Flash Advertising: Flash Platform Development of Microsites, Advergames and Branded Applications, Burlington, MA: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 183:]

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English ġemimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria. Displaced native Old English myne (whence English min) and Old English ġemynd, which took on a different meaning as modern mind. See: Latin Nouns 'memoria', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μνήμη', Old English Nouns 'ġemimor', English Nouns 'min'.

Verbs referencing "memory"

Dutch Nouns memory, Russian Nouns мемориал, Russian Nouns мемуары.