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Plural of memoir

regular plural

The plural of memoir is memoirs.

Forms of memoir

Singularmemoir /ˈmɛmˌwɑː/
Pluralmemoirs /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹz/
Countablecountable

Memoirs in a sentence

  • When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.
  • His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive.From the entry posthumous
  • The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.From the entry tell-all
  • Now that he's entering his twilight years, he's writing his memoirs.From the entry twilight years
  • Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle.2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN. From the entry twiction

Meaning of memoir

  1. noun An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.
  2. noun A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.
  3. noun Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

Full definition of memoir

Questions about the plural of memoir

What is the plural of memoir?
The plural of memoir is memoirs.
Is memoir countable?
Memoir is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memoir (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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