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memorialisation

memorialisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of memorialization.

Meaning of memorialization

Noun

memorialization (countable and uncountable, plural memorializations)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) The act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial.
    • “This is an important milestone in the whole memorialization process,” said Howard Dodson, one of the early leaders in the development of the memorial and the chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library .2007 October 2, Elias E. Lopez, “Nameless Are Memorialized at Old African Burial Site”, in New York Times

Forms of memorialisation

pluralmemorialisations

Origin of memorialisation

From memorial + -isation.

Questions about memorialisation

What is memorialisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Memorialisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of memorialization.

Words near memorialisation in the dictionary

  1. memorial poles
  2. memorial rose
  3. memorial roses
  4. memorial service
  5. memorial services
  6. memorialisation
  7. memorialisations
  8. memorialise
  9. memorialised
  10. memorialiser
  11. memorialisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memorialisation (page history and authors); memorialization (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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