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Altar vs Memorial - What's the difference?

altar | memorial |

As nouns the difference between altar and memorial

is that altar is a table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites while memorial is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.

As an adjective memorial is

serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.

altar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

    • Derived terms

    * altar boy * altar poem * high altar

    memorial

    English

    (wikipedia memorial)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
  • A service of remembrance or commemoration
  • (legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
    • a memorial building
  • * Alexander Pope
    • There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
  • Contained in the memory.
    • a memorial possession
  • Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
  • * Skeat
    • This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.