memento mori

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   a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality

   Broaderreminder

Questions about memento mori

What does memento mori mean?

memento mori means "a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality".

Is memento mori a common word?

memento mori is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.