What does memento mean?
Word: Memento
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Memento means an object you keep to remember a person, a place or an event; a souvenir.
Synonyms: souvenir, reminder, token
How do you spell memento?
Syllables: me - men - to
Tricky part: The word ends in a plain o, with no e after it.
Watch out for: mamento, mementoe, memanto
Memory tip: Picture the final o as a round photo frame holding your memento.
Memento in a sentence
Example 1: The shell from the seaside is a memento of our summer holiday.
Example 2: Every guest got a small brass memento at the school's jubilee.
Example 3: Grandma keeps her mother's old coin as a memento.
Fun Fact
Memento is a Latin word meaning remember, used as a command, as if the object were saying remember to you.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
memento
a) moment
b) measure
c) message
d) keepsake
Show answer
d) keepsake. A keepsake is kept to remind you of someone or something, just like a memento.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Grandpa kept the old railway ticket as a momento of his first trip to Shimla.
a) ticket
b) railway
c) Shimla
d) momento
Show answer
d) momento. It comes from the Latin for remember, so it starts like memory, not moment.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) trofy
b) momentem
c) souviner
d) memento
Show answer
d) memento. Souvenir ends in ir, trophy has ph and a y, and momentum ends in um.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
toemmen
a) memento
b) moment
c) mention
d) momentum
Show answer
a) memento. Moment is hiding in these letters, but the extra e turns it into memento.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which would make the best memento of a school trip to Agra?
a) a photo of your class at the Taj Mahal
b) a page of homework done on the way
c) a plastic bottle from the train
d) the receipt for the bus fuel
Show answer
a) a photo of your class at the Taj Mahal
2. Omar gave his teacher a small clock as a memento when she retired. The clock was meant to ____.
a) help her remember her years at the school
b) make sure she was never late again
c) pay her back for extra lessons
d) replace the broken staffroom clock
Show answer
a) help her remember her years at the school
