Meaning of remember | Babel Free
ɹɪˈmɛmbɚDefinitions
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- the act of remembering or reminding. a statue erected in remembrance of the dead. ter herinnering تَذَكُّر спомен lembrança paměť das Gedenken minde μνήμη, ανάμνησηconmemoración; recuerdo, memoria mälestus یاد آوری muisto souvenirזיכרון स्मरण, उपहार, याद में, स्मृति में sjećanje, uspomena emlékezés; emlék kenang-kenangan minning ricordo, memoria 思い出 기억, 추억 atminimas, prisiminimas atcerēšanās; atcere; piemiņa tanda peringatan herinneringerindring, minne, påminnelsepamięć ياد، يادونه، په زړه كي...
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- recordar, acordarse;___correctly! → ¡Acuérdese, acuérdate bien!;
- To not forget (to do something required)
- To recall to the mind with effort; think of again: I finally remembered the address.
- To convey greetings from.
- To retain in the memory: Remember your appointment.
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To put in mind; to remind (also used reflexively). obsolete
- To keep (someone) in mind as worthy of consideration or recognition.
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To engage in the process of recalling memories. intransitive
- To reward with a gift or tip: remembered his niece in his will.
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To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship. transitive
- To give greetings from: Remember me to your family.
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To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony. transitive
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Engineering To return to (an original shape or form) after being deformed or altered. Used especially of certain materials. Engineering
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Archaic To remind. Archaic
- To have or use the power of memory.
Equivalents
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.”
“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?”
“Remember me? I live in your building.”
“We have met twice this year and, during our first interview, Mata spoke evocatively when remembering how, having joined Real Oviedo aged 10 in 1998, he was given a previously unimaginable opportunity. Mata sat in a car park in 2003, when he was 14, and watched his father talking to a Real Madrid scout.”
“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.”
“When Maisie first met Danny, she remembers that he had an infectious laugh and a love for music.”
“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 me To our all royall Brother, for whose speede The 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 whole Of 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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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