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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/, /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbiːlɪə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/, /ˌmɛm(ə)ɹəˈbilɪə/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌmem(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪə/, /ˌmem(ə)ɹəˈbiːlɪə/

名詞

memorabilia pl (normally plural, singular (rare) memorabile)

1. (originally US) Objects that are connected to or remind their owner of past events. [from 1855]

   Synonyms: mementos, souvenirs, keepsakes

   George has a collection of World War II memorabilia.

   • 1981, “Memorabilia”, in Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, performed by Soft Cell:

     I can't remember / Give me a reminder / I collect, I reject / Memorabilia / Memorabilia

   • 2012, Donald Fagen, “Memorabilia”, in Sunken Condos:

     Have you seen the memorabilia / The rusty old memorabilia / The souvenirs of perfect doom / In the back of Louis Dakine's backroom

   • 2019 January 3, Michael Smerconish, “The Nixon letter I can’t forget”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 23 October 2021:

     Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.

2. (now rare) Things worth remembering: noteworthy points. [from 1785]
   • 1785, James Boswell, “To James Boswell, Esq.”, in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, page 522:

     On the other hand, how uſeful is ſuch a faculty, if well exerciſed! To it we owe all thoſe intereſting apothegms and memorabilia of the ancients, which Plutarch, Xenophon, and Valerius Maximus, have tranſmitted to us.

派生語

参照

参照

• “memorabilia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers