souvenir

CEFRB1

/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An object kept to remind someone of a place or event.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

Examples

  • Is there a souvenir shop in the hotel?

  • This will be a good souvenir of my trip around the United States.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˌsoʊ.vəˈnɪ.ə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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 sadness

  • The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.

Synonyms

Quick test

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I bought a small blank to remember my trip to Paris.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Unadapted borrowing from French souvenir (literally “memory”). Compare memento.