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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
Mahmoud Darwish

Meaning of "collective memory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Collective memory is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLLECTIVE MEMORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Collective memory

Collective memory refers to the shared pool of information held in the memories of two or more members of a group. Both the English phrase and its French equivalent appeared in various contexts in the second half of the nineteenth century. The philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs analyzed and advanced the concept in his book La mémoire collective. Collective memory can be shared, passed on and constructed by groups both small and large. In many ways, collective memory parallels individual memory, but also exhibits some key differences and features.

Definition of collective memory in the English dictionary

The definition of collective memory in the dictionary is the shared memories of a group, family, race, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLLECTIVE MEMORY

collective
collective agreement
collective bargaining
collective farm
collective fruit
collective noun
collective ownership
collective pitch lever
collective security
collective unconscious
collectively
collectiveness
collectivisation
collectivise
collectivism
collectivist
collectivistic
collectivities
collectivity
collectivization

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLLECTIVE MEMORY

armory
buffer memory
cache memory
commit to memory
episodic memory
erasable programmable read only memory
extended memory
long-term memory
main memory
memory
nonvolatile memory
photographic memory
random access memory
read only memory
screen memory
selective memory
semantic memory
short-term memory
video memory
virtual memory
working memory

Synonyms and antonyms of collective memory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «collective memory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Find out the translation of collective memory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of collective memory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «collective memory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

集体记忆
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

memoria colectiva
570 millions of speakers

English

collective memory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सामूहिक स्मृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الذاكرة الجماعية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коллективная память
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

memória coletiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যৌথ মেমরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mémoire collective
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ingatan kolektif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kollektive Gedächtnis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

集合記憶
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

집단 기억
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Memori bebarengan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ nhớ tập thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கூட்டு நினைவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामूहिक मेमरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Toplu bellek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

memoria collettiva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pamięć zbiorowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колективна пам´ять
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

memoria colectivă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συλλογική μνήμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kollektiewe geheue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kollektiva minne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kollektive hukommelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of collective memory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLECTIVE MEMORY»

The term «collective memory» is regularly used and occupies the 100.753 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLECTIVE MEMORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about collective memory

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7 QUOTES WITH «COLLECTIVE MEMORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word collective memory.
1
Bertie Carvel
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.
2
Paul Conroy
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.
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Mahmoud Darwish
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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Jason Epstein
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
5
Joshua Foer
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.
6
Ang Lee
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
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Anatoly Rybakov
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLECTIVE MEMORY»

Discover the use of collective memory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to collective memory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On Collective Memory
This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.
Maurice Halbwachs, Lewis A. Coser, 1992
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The Collective Memory Reader
In addition to the essay introducing the entire volume, a brief editorial essay introduces each of the sections, while brief capsules frame each of the 91 texts.
Jeffrey K. Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Daniel Levy, 2011
3
The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and ...
The City Of Collective Memory is a richly illustrated and documented study that pays considerable attention to the normally hidden and unspoken codes that regulate the order imposed on and derived from the city.
M. Christine Boyer, 1996
4
National Trauma and Collective Memory: Major Events in the ...
Chronicles the major traumas of the 20th century in America -- the Depression, Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Vietnam, Watergate, Three Mile Island, the ...
Arthur G. Neal, 1998
5
Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli ...
A fascinating examination of the interplay between history and memory, this book will appeal to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and folklorists, as well as to scholars of cultural studies, literature, and ...
Yael Zerubavel, 1997
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Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past
Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors? As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past.
Eviatar Zerubavel, 2012
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Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War, 1954-1962
The work emphasizes the lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of memory: school history, the media, and the family; and argues that lack of transmission of memories is feeding ...
Jo McCormack, 2010
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Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International ...
Addressing concerns shared by world leaders and international institutions as well as scholars of international studies, this volume illustrates clearly how the memory of past events alters the ways countries interact in the present, how ...
Eric Langenbacher, 2010
9
Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
Placing the story in a larger historical, sociological, and psychological context, Ben-Yehuda draws upon theories of collective memory and mythmaking to analyze Masada’s crucial role in the nation-building process of modern Israel and the ...
Nachman Ben-Yehuda, 1996
10
Collective Memory and European Identity: The Effects of ...
In this volume, leading scholars assess the link between collective identity construction in Europe and the multiple memory discourses that intervene in this construction process.
Klaus Eder, Willfried Spohn, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLECTIVE MEMORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term collective memory is used in the context of the following news items.
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Britons mark the 10th anniversary of London transit attacks
... bombings on London's transit system in the worst terror attack on British soil and a day of pain seared into London's collective memory. «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
The forgotten wounded?
Our collective memory usually draws us to the latest conflict. After all, it is reasonable to conceive of wounded soldiers from last summer's war ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
3
Sifting through our Confederate attic: What stays, what goes?
We should not wipe people like Russell from our collective memory — he reminds us that otherwise good people can do very bad things. «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»
4
Some Impressions on a Havana Exhibition
Individual and collective memory, the formulation of landscapes as an expression of dreams, power mechanisms and the subterfuges of ... «Havana Times, Jul 15»
5
Mike Hall: More evidence our language is quirky
... exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. «Topeka Capital Journal, Jul 15»
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Preserving the U.K.'s Audio Treasures
“We need to save this stuff as it's a great encapsulation of our collective memory for the last 100 years,” says Prentice. A 40-million-pound ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
7
World briefs: Pope rallies faithful in Ecuador
... bombings on London's transit system in the worst terror attack on British soil and a day of pain seared into London's collective memory. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
8
Britons remember 7/7 transit bombings
... bombings on London's transit system in the worst terror attack on British soil and a day of pain seared into London's collective memory. «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
9
The Fifth Kharkiv
This recent conflict, which added to political polarisation in the city, is deeply rooted in the 20th century collective memory of Kharkiv and the ... «New Eastern Europe, Jul 15»
10
Learning from the Hill Park Fountain
... they disappear from history like the war never happened, and its lessons become erased from our collective memory. It's then that history can ... «Helena Independent Record, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Collective memory [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/collective-memory>. Apr 2024 ».
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