noun memory; remembrance.
2. memorial ·noun a memorandum; a record.
3. memorial ·adj mnemonic; assisting the memory.
4. memorial ·noun a species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.
5. memorial ·adj serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
6. memorial ·noun anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
7. memorial ·noun a written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, ·etc., often accompanied with a petition.