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remember

verb
/ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/US/ɹɪˈmɛmbə/UK/ɹəˈmɛmbɐ/

Etymology

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 oneself”) (Dutch mijmeren (“to muse, reflect deeply”)), Old English ġemimor (“mindful”), Old Norse Mímir, Mim (“Norse god of memory”), Old English māmrian (“to think out, design”). Related to mourn. Displaced native Middle English ȝemuneȝen (“to remember”), from Old English ġemynegian (“to remember, remind”); Middle English minnen (“to remember, have in mind”), from Old Norse minna (“to remind”); Middle English munden, ȝemunden (“to bear in mind, remember”), from Old English ġemynd (“memory, remembrance”); Middle English ithenchen, ȝethenchen (“to think on, remember”), from Old English ġeþencan; Middle English manien (“to remind, mention, remember”), from Old English manian (“to admonish, remind, mention”).

  1. derived from *mer-✻
  2. derived from rememorari
  3. derived from remembrer
  4. inherited from remembren

Definitions

  1. To recall from one's memory

    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.

  2. To memorize

    To memorize; to put something into memory.

    • Please remember this formula!

  3. To keep in mind

    To keep in mind; to be mindful of.

    • Remember what I've said.
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To not forget (to do something required)

      • Remember to lock the door when you go out.

    2. 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 […]

    3. To put in mind

      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.
      • 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

    4. To engage in the process of recalling memories.

      • You don't have to remind him; he remembers very well.

    5. 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.

    6. To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.

      • Today we remember and honour those who have served.

    7. Alternative form of re-member.

      • 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.

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Derived

disremember, for as long as one can remember, foreremembered, I can't remember the last time, misremember, Pepperidge Farm remembers, recomember, rememberability, rememberable, rememberer, rememberingly, rememberize, remember like it was yesterday, remembersome, remembrance, reremember, unremember, unremembered, unremembering

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at remember. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at remember. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at remember

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA