memoranda
/mɛməˈɹændə/
memoranda is the plural of memorandum.
Meaning of memorandum
Noun
memorandum (plural memorandums or memoranda)
- A short note serving as a reminder.
- ....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity...1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- A written business communication.
- The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management.2025 July 28, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, “Trump administration allows federal workers to promote religious beliefs”, in CNN
- A brief diplomatic communication.
- A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.
Forms of memoranda
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Origin of memoranda
From Latin memoranda; by surface analysis, memorand(um) + -a.
Phrases with memoranda
Words that rhyme with memoranda
Questions about memoranda
- What is memoranda the plural of?
- Memoranda is the plural of memorandum.
- How do you pronounce memoranda?
- Memoranda is pronounced /mɛməˈɹændə/ (US).
Words near memoranda in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: memoranda (page history and authors); memorandum (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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