{
    "term": "memoir",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an account written by somebody, especially somebody famous, about their life and experiences",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "O'Connor published a childhood memoir."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has published a long memoir about those years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She describes in her memoirs how she coped with her mother's death."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["personal", "childhood", "political"],
                "verb + memoir": ["publish", "write", "read"],
                "preposition": ["in your memoir", "memoir about", "memoir of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a written account of somebody’s life, a place, or an event, written by somebody who knows it well",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "his brief memoir of his father's life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the market for political memoirs"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["personal", "childhood", "political"],
                "verb + memoir": ["publish", "write", "read"],
                "preposition": ["in your memoir", "memoir about", "memoir of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmemwɑː(r)/",
                "audio": "me/memoir/memoir__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈmemwɑːr/",
                "audio": "me/memoir/memoir__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) ‘memory’."
}