Meaning Of Memorial

a.

Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
a.

Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
n.

Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
n.

A memorandum; a record.
n.

A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.
n.

Memory; remembrance.
n.

A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.