remember

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Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/
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/ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/ · /ɹəˈmɛmbɚ/ · /ˈmɛmbɚ/ · /ˈɹɪmbɚ/ · /ˈɹɛmbɚ/ · /ɹɪˈmɛmbə/ · /ɹəˈmɛmbɐ/

Definition of remember

10 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
    “In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.”
    “[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.”
    “Spencer remembers the session as being 'as boring as beans'. A handful of copies of the record were pressed with the catalogue number Philles 111, and copies sent to both Sill and Finfer.”
    “[…] take the Ginger Line overground from Canada Water to Penge West. So you'll be getting off the Tube, and taking the train. I know you're American, but can you remember that?”
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verb

  1. To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
    “In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.”
    “[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.”
    “Spencer remembers the session as being 'as boring as beans'. A handful of copies of the record were pressed with the catalogue number Philles 111, and copies sent to both Sill and Finfer.”
    “[…] take the Ginger Line overground from Canada Water to Penge West. So you'll be getting off the Tube, and taking the train. I know you're American, but can you remember that?”
  2. To memorize; to put something into memory.
    “Please remember this formula!”
  3. To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
    “Remember what I've said.”
  4. To not forget (to do something required)
    “Remember to lock the door when you go out.”
  5. To convey greetings from.
    “Please remember me to your brother.”
    “She asks to be remembered to you all.”
    “Emil. Thanckes Sir; Remember me To our all royall Brother, for whose speede The great Bellona ile sollicite; and […]”
  6. (obsolete)To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
    “Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.”
    “My friends remember'd me of home.”
    “But soon, remembering her how brief the whole Of joy, which its own hours annihilate, Her set gaze gathered”
  7. (intransitive)To engage in the process of recalling memories.
    “You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.”
  8. (transitive)To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
    “My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.”
    “Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.”
  9. (transitive)To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
    “Today we remember and honour those who have served.”
  10. (alt-of, alternative, rare)Alternative form of re-member.
    “knit 'this scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, / these broken limbs again into one body' - in other words, how to resurrect the dismembered god, to remember Osiris. Yet the only body made whole in these expert, lowering poems is the body of this death.”
    “According to these mysteries, the rites of fashioning or remembering Osiris came to be interpreted as remembering Egypt. Egypt was the body of Osiris, dismembered and scattered across the land.”
    “She remembered Osiris by putting his pieces back together and mating with him one last time, conceiving Horus, who eventually avenged his father's death.”
    “To dismember is to tear apart; / To re-member is to put back together. / The old must be dismembered / So that which was prior to it / May be remembered. / Therefore, to re-mind is / To dismember and then re-member.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be…

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From Middle English remembren, from Old French remembrer (“to remember”), from Late Latin rememorari (“to remember again”), from re- + memor (“mindful”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *(s)mer- (“to think about, be mindful, remember”). Cognate with Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”), Old English māmorian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mimmer and mammer. Compare also dialectical English umbethink. etymology note The success of the Old French word was helped by its proximity in sound and meaning to an existing Germanic word: Old English mimorian, mymerian (“to remember, commemorate”) from Proto-Germanic *mimrōną, *mīmrōną (“to remember, be mindful”), from the same Indo-European source, and is akin to Saterland Frisian miemerje (“to ponder, reflect”), Middle Low German mimeren (“to ponder, meditate”), Middle Dutch mimeren (“to reflect, think to oneself”) (Dutch mijmeren (“to muse, reflect deeply”)), Old English ġemimor (“mindful”), Old Norse Mímir, Mim (“Norse god of memory”), Old English māmrian (“to think out, design”). Related to mourn. Displaced native Middle English ȝemuneȝen (“to remember”), from Old English ġemynegian (“to remember, remind”); Middle English minnen (“to remember, have in mind”), from Old Norse minna (“to remind”); Middle English munden, ȝemunden (“to bear in mind, remember”), from Old English ġemynd (“memory, remembrance”); Middle English ithenchen, ȝethenchen (“to think on, remember”), from Old English ġeþencan; Middle English manien (“to remind, mention, remember”), from Old English manian (“to admonish, remind, mention”).

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