souvenir
Syllables: sou·ve·nir/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/US/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/
souvenir noun: an item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
Noun
souvenir (plural souvenirs)
- An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
- Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness2005, “Souvenir”, performed by Korn
- The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138
- Synonyms:
- keepsake, memento, memorabilia
Verb
souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)
- To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
- "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57
- The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84
souvenir meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
souvenir in Hindi
- item of sentimental value
- स्मारिका smārikā, यादगार yādgār, सौग़ात sauġāt
souvenir in Tamil
- அஞ்சலி, இதழ்மலர், மலரிதழ், நினைவு மலர், நினைவுப்பரிசு
souvenir in Marathi
- item of sentimental value
- स्मारिका smārikā
souvenir in Urdu
- item of sentimental value
- یَادْگَار yādgār, سَوغَات sauġāt
More languagesFewer languages
- souvenir in Bengali
- স্মারকগ্রন্থ śãrkogrontho
- souvenir in Malayalam
- സ്മാരകസമ്മാനം, സ്മാരകം, സ്മാരകവസ്തു
- souvenir in Kannada
- ನೆನಪಿನ ಗುರುತು, ನೆನಪಿನ ಕುರುಹು, ಸ್ಮಾರಕ, ಸ್ಮರಣೆಯ ವಸ್ತು
- souvenir in Gujarati
- સંભારણું sambhārṇũ
- souvenir in Odia
- ସ୍ମାରିକା smārikā
- souvenir in Sanskrit
- स्मारिका smārikā
- souvenir in Nepali
- स्मारिका smārikā
- souvenir in Pashto
- يادګار yādgā́r
- souvenir in Tagalog
- daol, pang-alaala
- souvenir in Arabic
- تَذْكار taḏkār
- souvenir in Indonesian
- cendera mata, oleh-oleh
- souvenir in Thai
- ของฝาก kɔ̌ɔng-fàak
- souvenir in Vietnamese
- đồ lưu niệm
Examples of souvenir in a sentence
- I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!
- Buying a souvenir during a business trip is not a reimbursable expense.
- We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
Synonyms of souvenir
Forms of souvenir
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | souvenirs |
| alternative form (obsolete) | souvenier |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | souvenirs |
| present participle | souveniring |
| past participle | souvenired |
| past | souvenired |
Origin of souvenir
Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.
Words formed from souvenir
Phrases with souvenir
Words that rhyme with souvenir
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- spear
- career
- fear
- here
- steer
- appear
- cavalier
- cheer
- leer
- pioneer
- queer
- volunteer
- adhere
- beer
- chandelier
- deer
- financier
- pier
- premier
- privateer
- sheer
- veer
- vizier
- austere
- bombardier
- brigadier
- cashmere
- commandeer
- disappear
- endear
- grenadier
- interfere
- mere
- mountaineer
- peer
- sear
- tear
- tier
- unclear
- arrear
- bier
- blear
- cameleer
- cashier
- chiffonier
- cohere
- fakir
- farseer
Questions about souvenir
- What does souvenir mean?
- Souvenir means an item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
- What is souvenir in Hindi?
- Souvenir in Hindi is स्मारिका (smārikā), यादगार (yādgār), सौग़ात (sauġāt). See Souvenir meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is souvenir?
- Souvenir can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce souvenir?
- Souvenir is pronounced /ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of souvenir?
- The plural of souvenir is souvenirs.
Words near souvenir in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: souvenir (page history and authors); souvenir (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); souvenir (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); souvenir (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સંભારણું (Gujarati) (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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