Memorial

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Memory; remembrance.

II. Memorial ·noun A memorandum; a record.

III. Memorial ·adj Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

IV. Memorial ·noun A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

V. Memorial ·adj Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

VI. Memorial ·noun Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

VII. Memorial ·noun A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, ·etc., — often accompanied with a petition.