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commemorabilia

commemorabilia noun: items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.

Noun

commemorabilia pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.
    • By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.1997 September 7, “Fairy-Tale Princess”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Origin of commemorabilia

Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.

Questions about commemorabilia

What does commemorabilia mean?
Commemorabilia means items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.
What part of speech is commemorabilia?
Commemorabilia is a noun.

Words near commemorabilia in the dictionary

  1. commelinid
  2. commelinids
  3. commelinoid
  4. commelinoids
  5. commem.
  6. commemorabilia
  7. commemorable
  8. commemorand
  9. commemorands
  10. commemorate
  11. commemorated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commemorabilia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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