MEMORANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memoranda mean? 

• MEMORANDA (noun)
  The noun MEMORANDA has 1 sense:

1. a written proposal or reminder

  Familiarity information: MEMORANDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written proposal or reminder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

memo; memoranda; memorandum

Hypernyms ("memoranda" is a kind of...):

note (a brief written record)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memoranda"):

aide-memoire; position paper (a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications))

 Context examples 

On the inside of the cover was a paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and ‘Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register’ written beneath.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I only hoped to find, and find I have, all that there was—only some letters and a few memoranda, and a diary new begun.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am now in a condition to show, by—HEEP'S—false books, and—HEEP'S—real memoranda, beginning with the partially destroyed pocket-book (which I was unable to comprehend, at the time of its accidental discovery by Mrs. Micawber, on our taking possession of our present abode, in the locker or bin devoted to the reception of the ashes calcined on our domestic hearth), that the weaknesses, the faults, the very virtues, the parental affections, and the sense of honour, of the unhappy Mr. W. have been for years acted on by, and warped to the base purposes of—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be useful to me were I once outside the castle.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)