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reminiscence
English
Etymology
From Late Latin remin?scentiae (“remembrances”), from Latin remin?sc?ns, present active participle of remin?scor (“remember”); see reminiscent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???m.??n?s.?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Noun
reminiscence (countable and uncountable, plural reminiscences)
- An act of remembering long-past experiences, often fondly.
- A mental image thus remembered.
Synonyms
- recall
- recollection
Coordinate terms
- flashback - memory of trauma
Related terms
- reminiscent
- reminiscential
Translations
See also
- nostalgia
Further reading
- reminiscence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- reminiscence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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remember
English
Etymology 1
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 m?morian (“to deliberate, plan out, design”). More at mammer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???m?mb?/
- (General American, uncommon or dialectal, in rapid speech) IPA(key): /?m?mb?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???m?mb?/
- Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
- Hyphenation: re?mem?ber
Verb
remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Remember me? I live in your building.
- Remember me? I live in your building.
- 2021, President Joe Biden
- To heal, we must remember. It's hard sometimes to remember, but that's how we heal. It's important to do that as a nation.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- To keep in mind, be mindful of
- To not forget (to do something required)
- To convey greetings from.
- (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively)
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- Since thou dost give me pains, / Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, / Which is not yet perform'd me.
- 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Secret Parting", lines 5-7
- But soon, remembering her how brief the whole
- Of joy, which its own hours annihilate,
- Her set gaze gathered
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (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.
- 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime (Concordia Publishing House)
- Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.
- (transitive) to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony
Usage notes
- In sense 1 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
- In sense 3 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
- See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- remembre (obsolete)
Synonyms
- recall
- reminisce
Derived terms
- disremember
- misremember
- rememberer
- remembrance
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: memre
Translations
See also
- recollect
- recollection
- remind
Etymology 2
re- +? member
Verb
remember (third-person singular simple present remembers, present participle remembering, simple past and past participle remembered)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member
- 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:
- 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.
- 2008, Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, page 42:
- 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.
- 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100:
- 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.
- 2012, Roy Melvyn, The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin: Pointers to Non Duality in Five Volumes, Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)
- 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.
- 1982, Book Review Digest, volume 78, page 824:
Alternative forms
- re-member
Anagrams
- remembre
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