remember Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
    retrieve; recall; recollect; call back; think; call up.
    • I can't remember saying any such thing
    • I can't think what her last name was
    • can you remember her phone number?
    • Do you remember that he once loved you?
    • call up memories
  2. verb keep in mind for attention or consideration
    think of.
    • Remember the Alamo
    • Remember to call your mother every day!
    • Think of the starving children in India!
  3. verb recapture the past; indulge in memories
    think back.
    • he remembered how he used to pick flowers
  4. verb show appreciation to
    • He remembered her in his will
  5. verb mention favorably, as in prayer
    • remember me in your prayers
  6. verb mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
    commend.
    • Remember me to your wife
  7. verb exercise, or have the power of, memory
    • After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember
    • some remember better than others
  8. verb call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
    commemorate.
    • We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
    • Remember the dead of the First World War

WordNet

Re*mem"ber transitive verb
Etymology
OF. remebrer, L. rememorari; pref. re- re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See Memory, and cf. Rememorate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Remembered present participle & verbal noun Remembering
Definitions
  1. To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.
    We are said to remember anithing, when the idea of it arise in the mind with the consciousness that we have had this idea before. I. Watts.
  2. To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection, respect, or any other emotion.
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8.
    That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak.
    Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.
  3. To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally. Obs. "Remembering them the trith of what they themselves known." Milton.
    My friends remembered me of home. Chapman.
    Remember you of passed heaviness. Chaucer.
    And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee. Chaucer.
  4. To mention. Obs. "As in many cases hereafter to be remembered." Ayliffe.
  5. To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc.
Re*mem"ber intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember better than others. Shak.

Webster 1913