Etimology
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 mammer.
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.
To memorize; to put something into memory.
To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
To not forget (to do something required)
To convey greetings from.
(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively).
(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.
(transitive) to commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony
Examples
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”.
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 the tenant farmer and for the workers' need for collective bargaining. I remembered my mother's deep faith in the value of education. I remembered the pinched and hopeless look of poverty I saw on the faces of the Mexican-American children I had taught. I remembered the army of jobless and ragged men who rode grimy boxcars across our country during the Depression. These and a hundred other separate recollections of struggle and hope were all part of my heritage. They formed a portion of the background against which I developed the programs I felt America wanted and needed.
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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.
Please remember this formula!
Remember what I've said.
Remember to lock the door when you go out.
Please remember me to your brother.
She asks to be remembered to you all.
Emil. Thanckes Sir; Remember meTo our all royall Brother, for whose speedeThe great Bellona ile sollicite; and […]
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 wholeOf joy, which its own hours annihilate,Her set gaze gathered
You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.
My aunt remembered me in her will, leaving me several thousand pounds.
Waitresses, mail carriers, and teachers were often remembered on Boxing Day.
Today we remember and honour those who have served.
Related words
synonyms
recall
reminisce
Etimology
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
Examples
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.