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remember Definition

re·mem·ber (ri mem′bər)

transitive verb

  1. to have (an event, thing, person, etc.) come to mind again; think of again suddenly remembering an appointment
  2. to bring back to mind by an effort; recollect; recall to try to remember a name
  3. to bear in mind; keep in the memory; be careful not to forget
  4. to keep (a person) in mind with some feeling, as of pleasure, gratitude, etc.
    1. to keep (a person) in mind for a present, legacy, etc.
    2. to give a present or tip to
  6. to mention (a person) to another as sending regards or greetings remember me to your mother
  7. Archaic to remind

Etymology: ME remembren < OFr remembrer < LL rememorare < L re-, back, again + memorare, to bring to remembrance < memor, mindful: see memory

intransitive verb

  1. to bear something in mind or call something back to mind
  2. to have memory or the use of one's memory

remember Related Forms
re·mem′·berer noun
remember Synonyms

remember

v.

  1. To recall

    recollect, recognize, summon up, relive, think of, bring to mind, refresh one's memory, be reminded of, revive, call to mind, think back, look back, go back, brood over, dwell upon, conjure up, call up, bring back, recapture, retrieve, carry one's thoughts back, look back upon, have memories of, commemorate, memorialize, reminisce, dig into the past, identify, spot*, dig up*, dredge up*. *

    Antonyms lose*, forget*, neglect. *

  2. To bear in mind

    keep in mind, retain, memorize, know by heart, learn, master, get, be impressed on one's mind, fix in the mind, treasure, hold dear, cherish, enshrine in the memory, carry in one's thoughts, keep a memory alive.

    Antonyms neglect*, ignore*, disregard.

remember Usage Examples

Object

  • anything: In giving advice, focus on the main problem which will be the only one you can remember anything about.
  • everything: Liam: I really like to read, I read a lot, but I just don't remember everything I read.
  • being: I remember being in his locker room after his fight with Axel Schulz in 1995, two years before his final fight.
  • name: It is difficult for the average person to remember long domain names.
  • word: I still remember the words of the songs ( There's a hole in my bucket etc.
  • day: Door Deliveries I remember well the day that Corona drinks came upon the scene.

Preposition: as

  • battler: Crook glory days rekindled Going where the Eagles dare Polly remembered as a battler in.. .

Used with why or when

  • who: You have an optional setting of allowing Smartgroups to remember who you are.
  • when: My wife June and I can well remember when Joan came into our lives in the late sixties through a business connection.
  • what: I didn't think that he could remember all what he used in his speeches.
  • where: I don't remember where I got them from.
  • which: She's married to Nick Martin; you know, the union chief can't remember which one Health, I think.
  • why: You can't remember why you ever came here.

Infinitive complement

  • check: Do remember to check your Spam folder - to check that no legitimate messages have ended up there.
  • keep: Remember to keep watering the new plants once they are in place.
  • bring: Remember to bring your authorized receipt along to the course with you!
  • switch: The next step is to remember to switch off the illumination to the ' scope!
  • tell: Alternative formats Please remember to tell us whether you want Email txt file, Large print, Small print or Braille.

Present participle complement

  • watch: I remember watching Sergio train his chest in 1969.

Preposition: with

  • affection: Many people, staff and patients, remember with affection their times or visits to these premises.
remember Quotes

We met at nine öWe met at eight I was on time öNo, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.

—Lerner, AlanJay

I cannot remember anyone ever asking 'Who came second?'Can you?

—Reardon, Ray

Me morire¤   en Par|¤s con aguacero, un d|¤a del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire¤   en Par|¤söy no me corroö tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de oton‹  o. I will die in Paris with a sudden shower, a day I can already remember. I will die in Parisöand I don't budgeö maybe aThursday, like today is, in autumn.

—Vallejo, Ce¤  sarAbraham

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy.

—Honorius of Autun

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

—Honorius of Autun

There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

—Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.

—Hupfeld, Herman

   One Christmas was much like another† I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

Draw more and more oftenöremember Degas.

—Pissarro, Camille

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land.

—Rossetti, Christina Georgina

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

—Rhodes, Cecil John

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.

—Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Till life and death remember, Till thou remember and I forget.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

To remember is far worse than to forget.

—Benuzzi, Felice

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

—Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey

Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,ö Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

—Herr, Michael

Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man.

—Kelman,James