memorable

From Middle French mémorable, from Latin memorābilis, from memorō (“to bring to remembrance”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”). See memory, and compare memorabilia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm(ə)ɹəbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: mem‧or‧able

memorable (comparative more memorable, superlative most memorable)

1. Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

   a memorable holiday

   • 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum:

     Men have surviving Fame to gain,
     By Tombs, by Books, by memorable Deeds

• See also Thesaurus:memorable

• memorableness
• memorability
• memorably

memorable (plural memorables)

1. Something interesting enough to be remembered.
   • 1870, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, page 237:

     These were all the memorables of our visit to Dumbarton Castle, which is a most interesting spot, and connected with a long series of historical events.

• “memorable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin memorābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [mə.muˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [mə.moˈɾab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [me.moˈɾa.ble]

memorable m or f (masculine and feminine plural memorables)

1. memorable

• memòria

• “memorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “memorable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “memorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “memorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin memorābilis.

• IPA^(key): /memoˈɾable/ [me.moˈɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: me‧mo‧ra‧ble

memorable m or f (masculine and feminine plural memorables)

1. memorable

• “memorable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014