Souvenir

Quick meaning: Souvenir is a noun meaning An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

"Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."

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 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.

Word Forms

• souvenirs
• souvenier
• souveniring
• souvenired

Synonyms for souvenir

Depending on context, synonyms include keepsake, memento, memorabilia, relic, token.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include keepsake, memento, token, relic, memorabilia, commemorative.

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