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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

souvenir

/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/

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What does souvenir mean?

noun

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

verb

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

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈsu.vəˌnɪɹ/

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In a relative measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exception is just.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
The mayor presented him with a golden casket as a souvenir of 'the grandest enterprise of our day and generation.'
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979
More book examples (3)
The "best" people do not think it really wrong to do this, especially if the things taken have a souvenir value.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575
After all have expressed admiration of their beauty, Rikiu presents one of them to each of the assembled company as a souvenir.
Kakuzo OkakuraThe Book of TeaProject Gutenberg ebook #769
I had preserved it, as I have all of my books, for future use and as a sort of souvenir of my cadet life.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448