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

2) Memorial describes something made in someone's memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x1)
- The bench is a memorial to my great-grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x2)
- The town built a memorial to the miners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x3)
- We went to a memorial service for our old teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x4)
- The school planted a memorial garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x5)
- Names are carved on the stone memorial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x6)
- Memorial Day is a holiday in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x7)
- No king has a more splendid memorial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/memorial/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/5/)
- ["Memorial park" is an American word for a cemetery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/11/)
- ["Celebration of life" means a funeral or memorial service with a cheerful mood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/14/)
- [Being noisy at funerals and memorials can hurt grieving people for a long time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/21/)
- [During a memorial silence you stand still and stay quiet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/265-holidays-of-the-region/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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