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memorialist

noun

memorialist is a noun meaning “A writer of memorials” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-M-O-R-I-A-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of memorialist is memorialists.

What does memorialist mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A writer of memorials.

  2. 2

    One who signs a petition.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of memorialist

  • memorialists plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is memorialist?

Memorialist appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does memorialist come from?

From memorial + -ist.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).