different between souvenir vs steal

English

Etymology

From French souvenir (literally “memory”); compare memento.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sou?ve?nir
• IPA^(key): /?su?v??n??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

souvenir (plural souvenirs)

1. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.

   Synonyms: keepsake, memento, memorabilia

   • 2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 138:

     The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

Alternative forms

• souvenier (obsolete)

Translations

Verb

souvenir (third-person singular simple present souvenirs, present participle souveniring, simple past and past participle souvenired)

1. (transitive) To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French souvenir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.v??nir/
• Hyphenation: sou?ve?nir

Noun

souvenir n (plural souvenirs, diminutive souvenirtje n)

1. souvenir

Synonyms

• aandenken
• gedachtenis

French

Etymology

From Middle French soubvenir, from Old French sovenir, from Latin subven?re, present active infinitive of subveni? (“come to mind, occur to”), from sub + veni?. Doublet of subvenir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suv.ni?/

Verb

souvenir

1. (reflexive, transitive with de) to remember

   Synonym: rappeler

Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

Derived terms

• se souvenir

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. memory (mental picture)

2. souvenir

Descendants

Further reading

• “souvenir” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French souvenir.

Noun

souvenir m (invariable)

1. souvenir

Anagrams

• universo

Further reading

• souvenir in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Old French

Verb

souvenir

1. Alternative form of sovenir

Spanish

Etymology

From French souvenir.

Noun

souvenir m (plural souvenirs)

1. souvenir

Further reading

• “souvenir” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?l, IPA^(key): /sti?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophones: steel, stele

Verb

steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)

1. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
   • "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

2. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

3. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

   • Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place

     Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.

5. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:

     "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
7. (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
8. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

   • They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
9. (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
10. (sports, transitive) To dispossess
11. (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
• (to secretly move): sneak

Antonyms

• (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
• (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant

Troponyms

• shoplift

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• burglarize
• burgle
• confiscate
• pickpocket
• pilfer
• steal away

Noun

steal (plural steals)

1. The act of stealing.
2. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.

   At this price, this car is a steal.

3. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
4. (baseball) A stolen base.
5. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
6. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Synonyms

• (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla