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souvenir
/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/
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What does souvenir mean?
noun
- An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
verb
- To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
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IPA pronunciation
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In a relative measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exception is just.
The mayor presented him with a golden casket as a souvenir of 'the grandest enterprise of our day and generation.'
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The "best" people do not think it really wrong to do this, especially if the things taken have a souvenir value.
After all have expressed admiration of their beauty, Rikiu presents one of them to each of the assembled company as a souvenir.
I had preserved it, as I have all of my books, for future use and as a sort of souvenir of my cadet life.