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souvenirs - 2 dictionary results

sou⋅ve⋅nir

[soo-vuh-neer, soo-vuh-neer]
–noun
1. a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento.
2. a memory.

Origin:
1765–75; < F, n. use of (se) souvenir to remember < L subvenīre to come to mind, equiv. to sub- sub- + venīre to come


1. reminder, keepsake, token.
sou·ve·nir   (sōō'və-nîr', sōō'və-nîr')   
n.  A token of remembrance; a memento.

[French, from Old French, to recall, memory, from Latin subvenīre, to come to mind : sub-, sub- + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]
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