What's the difference between memorabilia and souvenir?

Memorabilia


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (3) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
  • (4) Owen said the original plan had been to auction the tapes as a piece of folk memorabilia, something that would attract a wealthy fan.
  • (5) This survey was designed to study cherished objects and other memorabilia as "reminiscentia," (i.e., as inducers of reminiscence).
  • (6) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
  • (7) Memorabilia - ranging from the mail sacks to some of the cutlery they used as they hid out - will be on display.
  • (8) From 2018, the RA's 250-year anniversary, it is expected to go on permanent display along with a changing display from a collection that includes one of the finest sculptures in Britain – Michelangelo's Tondo – as well as mountains of personal memorabilia, letters, sketches and drawings from a who's who of British artists.
  • (9) Greeks know what it is like to lose everything: homes, friends, memories, pictures, the memorabilia of their lives.
  • (10) Standing in front of the first of two "glamscapes" of memorabilia and pop-culture ephemera, I am confronted by things I had hoped never to be reminded of again.
  • (11) More than 7,000 people lined up outside the Astrodome in 2013 for a fundraising auction that sold off hundreds of pairs of stadium seats, memorabilia and even chunks of AstroTurf, netting the county more than $800,000.
  • (12) Officially, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - one of the country's oldest black organisations - has criticised the trade in racist memorabilia.
  • (13) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
  • (14) A stage has been set up to welcome medallists and fans can pick up supporter’s packs containing Russian flags and peruse memorabilia donated by famous Russian athletes.
  • (15) Tonight, after you've tricked and treated your way through Halloween festivities and thrown your elaborate costume in the bottom of your closet for another year, I'd be grateful if you could throw away whatever pink ribbon festooned memorabilia (or junk) you have gathered this month, too.
  • (16) In the car park outside, busloads of oblivious Japanese and American tourists pulled in for their 20-minute tour of the Wordsworth residence and a visit to the gift shop to stock up on daffodil memorabilia.
  • (17) Stephanie Connell, head of entertainment memorabilia at Bonhams, which is selling the artwork, said it was an "iconic design".
  • (18) Turn to other online shops Ebay celebrated 15 years of activity in the UK in 2014, when it sold 3bn items – not all of them kitsch memorabilia.
  • (19) The house is the ultimate in moneyed hippydippydom – candles at every corner, trinkets on every shelf, elephants from India, giraffes from Africa, memorabilia from their travels.
  • (20) The public stereotype of corruption is the mass looting of government coffers by an African dictator and family to buy fast cars, fine wines, mansions, and Michael Jackson memorabilia .

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.