remembrance

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Alternative forms

• remembraunce

Etymology

Old French remembrance, from the verb remembrer, from Late Latin rememorari.

Pronunciation

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Noun

remembrance (plural remembrances)

1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
   • Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. John Milton.
   • Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. Joseph Addison.
2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
   • This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. Alexander Pope.
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
   • And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. Edmund Spenser.
   • Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. William Shakespeare
5. (obsolete) Something to be remembered; counsel; admonition; instruction.
6. Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.
   • Thee I have heard relating what was done Ere my remembrance. John Milton.

Synonyms

• recollection; reminiscence. See memory.

Translations

act of remembering

Dutch: herinneren (nl) Finnish: muisto (fi), muistaminen (fi) Japanese: 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide); 回想 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)

Latin: memoria (la) f., recordatio (la) f. Maltese: tifkira (mt) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachadh (gd) m.

state of being remembered

Dutch: herinnerd (nl) Finnish: muisti (fi), muistaminen (fi) Japanese: 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide)

Latin: memoria (la) f., recordatio (la) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuimhne (gd) f.

something remembered

Dutch: herinnerde (nl) n. Finnish: muisto (fi), muistikuva (fi) Japanese: 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide)

Latin: memoria (la), recordatio (la) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuimhne (gd) f.

that which serves to keep in or bring to mind

Dutch: geheugensteun (nl) m. Finnish: (memento) muisto (fi); (memorial) muistomerkki (fi); muistiinpano (fi) Japanese: (memorial) 思い出 (ja) (おもいで, omoide); (token) 記念碑 (ja) (きねんひ, kinen-hi), 記念品 (ja) (きねんひん, kinen-hin); (memento which reminds a person who passed away) 形見 (ja) (かたみ, katami)

Latin: recordatio (la) f., memoria (la) f. Scottish Gaelic: cuimhneachan (gd) m.

obsolete: something to be remembered

Japanese: 記憶 (ja) (きおく, kioku)

Latin: recordatio (la) f., memoria (la) f.

power of remembering

Finnish: muisti (fi) Japanese: 記憶 (ja) (きおく, kioku)

Latin: recordatio (la) f., memoria (la) Scottish Gaelic: cuimhne (gd) f.

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Mandarin: 記憶 (jìyì, ji4yi4, simplified 记忆) German: Erinnerung (de) f. Turkish: anma, anı

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Anglo-Norman

Noun

remembrance f.

1. recollection; memory

Descendants

• English: remembrance
• French: remembrance