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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#m1)

2) A gift given so the person will remember the giver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x1)
- I keep the shell as a keepsake of our beach holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x2)
- The ticket is a keepsake from my first concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x3)
- She kept his letters as keepsakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x4)
- Our class made keepsake boxes for our memories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x5)
- After Grandpa passed away, each grandchild chose a keepsake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x6)
- But at parting the little girl took an elder-blossom from her breast and gave it to him as a keepsake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/)
- [Un souvenir is a keepsake, but in French it also means any memory; se souvenir means to remember.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/36-english-words-that-came-from-french/13/)
- [Vets often make a clay paw print or keep a lock of fur so families have a keepsake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/56-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «keepsake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keepsake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.