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memoranda

/mɛməˈɹændə/

memoranda is the plural of memorandum.

Meaning of memorandum

Noun

memorandum (plural memorandums or memoranda)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. A brief diplomatic communication.
  4. A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.

Forms of memoranda

alternative formmemorandums

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

  1. memorability
  2. memorable
  3. memorableness
  4. memorables
  5. memorably
  6. memoranda
  7. memoranda of association
  8. memoranda of understanding
  9. Memorandist
  10. Memorandists
  11. memorandize

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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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