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say it: MEM-wahr
memoir is a noun meaning "an account of the author's personal experiences". It is pronounced /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/ — MEM-wahr. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an account of the author's personal experiences
an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for memoir come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.