memorialize

verb

me·​mo·​ri·​al·​ize mə-ˈmȯr-ē-ə-ˌlīz How to pronounce memorialize (audio)
memorialized; memorializing
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transitive verb

1
: to address or petition by a memorial
2
a
: to serve as a memorial of : commemorate
a statue memorializing the event
b
: to do or create something that causes people to remember (a person, thing, or event)
a period in history that has been memorialized in countless films
memorialization
mə-ˌmȯr-ē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce memorialize (audio)
-ˌlī-ˈzā-
noun

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an exciting period in history that has been memorialized in many popular books and movies at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott
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Perhaps because his time in Kansas City was so brief, though, Delaney for a long time wasn’t memorialized visibly here. — Kansas City Star, 24 June 2026 His name will also be memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026 The blue stopper symbolizes the sky and the shape of the bottle evokes the Taj Mahal, which Jahan commissioned to moth memorialize his wife (who died in childbirth) and serve as her final resting place. — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 27 June 2026 These are framed by an animation of silhouetted figures gathering around the statue in protest, lassoing it with a rope, and then pulling it down—a reenactment of a moment memorialized in a painting by Johannes Oertel that is also on view nearby. — Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for memorialize

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of memorialize was in 1798

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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/memorialize. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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memorialize

verb
me·​mo·​ri·​al·​ize mə-ˈmōr-ē-ə-ˌlīz How to pronounce memorialize (audio)
-ˈmȯr-
memorialized; memorializing
: commemorate sense 1
memorialization
-ˌmōr-ē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce memorialize (audio)
-ˌmȯr-
noun

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