What's the difference between memento and souvenir?

Memento


Definition:

  • (n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
  • (2) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
  • (3) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
  • (4) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
  • (5) She left no mark behind; there are no photographs or mementoes of her brief life.
  • (6) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
  • (7) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
  • (8) That is why this memory of the manuscripts that do not exist any more should serve as memento for future generations.
  • (9) Three more from Muriel Spark Memento Mori (1959); The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960); The Girls of Slender Means (1961).
  • (10) But, significantly, the show will not include recent works such as the critically panned skull paintings he showed at the Wallace Collection in London in 2009 – described by the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, as " a memento mori for a reputation ".
  • (11) The wall behind her is lined with mementoes from her time as first lady – an honorary plaque from the Liberian national football team, a signed photograph of her with Hillary Clinton and a framed photo of the Taylors with former French president Jacques Chirac.
  • (12) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
  • (13) We analyzed the experts' conclusions regarding legal mementos and expert reports, wherein medical liability (4 cases) and repair of dental injury (2 cases) were put into question.
  • (14) They will doubtless arrive to examine her grisly family mementoes, but that will only be a small step towards any form of justice.
  • (15) We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian’s tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden’s documents while GCHQ representatives watched .
  • (16) Wangari Maathai's office in fuming, downtown Nairobi is full of citations and mementos, but there is one special photograph.
  • (17) "Clearly, someone thought it was better to keep it as a memento.
  • (18) His duties probably included chasing off those who came with hammers (which could apparently be hired locally) to chip away pieces of the stones as mementoes.
  • (19) It's the sort of covetable memento that says "I was there" just as much as a crumpled 1966 World Cup final ticket or recurrent lysergic acid flashbacks.
  • (20) But judging from the contents of the office – a clutter of playtexts and mementoes of previous productions – Stephens hasn't been short of work.

Souvenir


Definition:

  • (n.) That which serves as a reminder; a remembrancer; a memento; a keepsake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 4.16pm BST Pro-Russian militia members in Slavyansk are obligingly taking part in souvenir photo sessions with appreciative locals (note: not all the locals are appreciative).
  • (2) A bumper 16-page souvenir pullout will mark the end of its 30 years in print before it becomes the first national newspaper in the UK to go online only .
  • (3) BBC staff have taken so many souvenirs, Television Centre rooms left empty, says Victoria Coren.
  • (4) Team GB has a motto, which has adorned the back of thousands of souvenir shirts at the park and beyond, "Better never stops".
  • (5) It shows Fuleco, this World Cup's mascot, which never really caught on, being carried by security guards at the Fifa souvenir store.
  • (6) The advent of the railway age and the concept of tourism for the masses led to a boom in cheaper – and sometimes tackier – souvenirs.
  • (7) "It's not the case, as it once was, of rogue traders so much as organised crime, although of course we still get the tourists and holidaymakers trying to bring in souvenirs they've bought that they shouldn't have."
  • (8) The bestseller at the eclectic L'Oeuf at no 9 is its own South Pigalle range – branded sweatshirts, caps, kids' toys and bags – perfect souvenirs to let everyone know you have discovered SoPi.
  • (9) The Express cartoonist Carl Giles, then a war cartoonist, was given a Luger as a souvenir by the Commandant of Belsen after its liberation because the man was a huge fan of his cartoons.
  • (10) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
  • (11) A comparison of the television and radio listings of that week 35 years ago with those of diamond jubilee week in 2012 shows that, even though the Radio Times published its own "souvenir issue", coverage of the event occupied significantly less broadcast time in 1977.
  • (12) Cleber Araújo, 36, was minding his souvenir store.
  • (13) It may not do so until it hears a right-to-life case or some other human interest story, however many visitors buy its souvenir mousemats or teddy bears wearing the court's logo.
  • (14) It has gone from a place of memory to a place of souvenirs.
  • (15) It should be packed now.” The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog | Jon Henley Read more Nicole Stael, who sells postcards, snow globes and souvenir plates, said that in the 40 years she had owned her gift shop business had not been so bad.
  • (16) Independent prints souvenir pullout as it moves to online only Read more There are two reasons for a widely shared sense of regret at the Indy’s fate .
  • (17) Now the white cross on a black background is ubiquitous, fluttering outside county hall in Truro and printed on everything from souvenir boxes of fudge to pasty packaging and car bumper stickers.
  • (18) Another avalanche of adulation is about to asphyxiate us; with glossy supplements on “The Greatest Reign”, exhibitions in royal palaces selling souvenir albums, and Douglas Hurd’s gushing biography, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast .
  • (19) • 2814 North 16 Street, barriocafe.com CULINARY HEROES FnB Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Jill Richards Photography Among the Native American souvenir stores of Scottsdale old town, is the excellent FnB, a truly forward-thinking, showcase for the state’s native produce in veg-centric dishes: salad of persimmons with hazelnut, kohlrabi, dill and goat’s cheese.
  • (20) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.