I. adjective
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a memorial fund (= for remembering the life of someone who has died )
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The work is being paid for out of the memorial fund launched after Morris’s death.
Memorial Day
war memorial
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■ NOUN
service
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The Arnhem veteran had come from Salisbury for a memorial service .
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There were one hundred and fifty mourners at Doris's memorial service when Lee Lacey claimed to receive the messages from her.
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On Wednesday last week five mortars landed a few hundred metres from where 350 people attended a Holocaust memorial service .
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Together with the family, directors establish the location, dates, and times of wakes, memorial services , and burials.
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the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin in 1940.
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He met Saleh after a memorial ceremony for former president Francois Mitterand.
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Jackson Memorial Hospital
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The memorial service was attended by the greatest names in Hollywood.
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And the next book, article, theatre programme and, one day, I guess, memorial celebration.
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Camusfearna was demolished after he left, a single memorial stone marking the site; the otters come no more.
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People fall all over each other to help light memorial candles, to organize funerals.
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Together with the family, directors establish the location, dates, and times of wakes, memorial services, and burials.
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Unless he changes his mind, there may be more holocausts to remember on the Holocaust memorial days to come.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
permanent
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It will stand as a permanent memorial to the man whose generosity has so benefited the Theatre Collection.
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It's too early to discuss a permanent memorial , she said.
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Now the people of the town have honoured his bravery by erecting a permanent memorial .
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service
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A motorcade through downtown Moon Beach, a twenty-one-gun salute, a memorial service in the cathedral.
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A memorial service will be held later this month.
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After yesterday's memorial service , cremation took place at Colwyn Bay.
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Yesterday's statement said the funeral would be private and a memorial service would be held later.
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This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others.
stone
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The site is now marked by a Mull granite memorial stone , erected through the efforts of the Eric Liddell Foundation.
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A memorial stone has been unveiled to commemorate their bravery.
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Black day A funeral home was throwing open its doors today with guided tours around the coffins, memorial stones and hearses.
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He was buried in St Peter's church, Thurston, where there is a memorial stone .
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Louise wished to visit Dorothy's grave, where the memorial stone was now in place.
war
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It had been commissioned by students and was situated near the official war memorial on Hewitt Plaza.
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We had staked out the war memorial where the secret meeting was destined to occur.
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A Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament banner was unfurled and carried round the war memorial before one of those carrying it was arrested.
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The village band, all discordant trumpetings and squeaks, led the congregation in procession to the war memorial .
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In 1918 he chaired a war memorials committee and organized nationwide pyrotechnic displays in celebration of the armistice.
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For many years his family thought he was dead, and his name was only recently removed from the village war memorial .
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Charles and Diana did not speak as they climbed into their limousine to drive to the war memorial .
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The heavy plaque was stolen from the war memorial in King's Gardens, Bootle, four weeks ago.
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build
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If it makes up for it, he has built his own unforgettable memorial .
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Congress gave the go-ahead in 1993 to build the Air Force memorial .
erect
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The black sanctuaries are burning even as the South erects memorials to the sorry chapters in its history.
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Many cities have erected similar memorials .
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In 1791 Sir Richard erected a memorial to his parents at Skelton church, near York.
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In 1891, an obelisk of Aberdeen granite was erected as a memorial in place of the headstone.
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Now the people of the town have honoured his bravery by erecting a permanent memorial .
hold
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And Oriel College will hold its a own memorial service ... after the funeral ... expected to go ahead early next week.
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the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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It's too early to discuss a permanent memorial , she said.
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It had been commissioned by students and was situated near the official war memorial on Hewitt Plaza.
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One of her best-known works is a marble memorial to Bishop Prideaux which is in Worcester cathedral.
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Removing personal memorials, or even mowing around them, can be trying for highway crews.
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The memorial at the bomb site featured mournful bagpipes played Amazing Grace after Marine Capt.
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There are no plans for a memorial at Daytona International Speedway, where Earnhardt died.
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There is a memorial to nine of those who perished-the guards.