memoir
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noun (sometimes memoirs)ADJECTIVE▪ personal▪
a personal memoir of these important events
▪ childhood▪O'Connor published a childhood memoir.
▪ political▪the market for political memoirs
▪ best-selling▪ unpublished▪an excerpt from an unpublished memoir
VERB + MEMOIR▪ publish, write▪ readPREPOSITION▪ in your memoir▪She describes in her memoirs how she coped with her mother's death.
▪ memoir about▪He has published a long memoir about those years.
▪ memoir of▪his brief memoir of his father's life
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