commemorabilia

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noun

Items that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.

OriginLatin commemorābilia →
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Meanings

nouncommemorabilia pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyItems that are created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.

    By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.

    1997 September 7, “Fairy-Tale Princess”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Origin

  1. Latincommemorābilis
  2. Latincommemorābilia
  3. Englishcommemorabilia

Morphologically, borrowed from Latin commemorābilia, the nominative neuter plural of Latin commemorābilis; semantically, a blend of commemorate + memorabilia.

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APA

commemorabilia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commemorabilia

MLA

“commemorabilia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commemorabilia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “commemorabilia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commemorabilia.

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