remember

To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.

Verb

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. - 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art,...
- […] 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...
- A man's vision reflects his memories. As I looked out on the nation from the President's Oval Office, my reflections included images burned deep in my mind for over a half a century. I remembered my father's concern for...
Synonyms: think
To memorize; to put something into memory.
- Please remember this formula!
Synonyms: retain
To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- Remember what I've said.
Synonyms: mind
To not forget (to do something required)
- Remember to lock the door when you go out.
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 […] - 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London:...
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. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
- My friends remember'd me of home. - 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter,...
- But soon, remembering her how brief the whole Of joy, which its own hours annihilate, Her set gaze gathered - 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Secret Parting, lines 5–7:
To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.
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. - 2003, Little Visits 365 Family Devotions: Building Faith for a Lifetime, Concordia Publishing House:
To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
- Today we remember and honour those who have served.

Origin

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...

Verb alt of, alternative

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,...
- 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. - 2008, Jan Assmann, Of...
- 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. - 2010, Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth, page 100: