dictionary definitions for "remember"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  remember
      v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "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" [syn: retrieve, recall, call back, {call
           up}, recollect, think] [ant: forget]
      2: keep in mind for attention or consideration; "Remember the
         Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think
         of the starving children in India!" [syn: think of]
         [ant: forget]
      3: recapture the past; indulge in memories; "he remembered how
         he used to pick flowers" [syn: think back]
      4: show appreciation to; "He remembered her in his will"
      5: mention favourably, as in prayer; "remember me in your
         prayers"
      6: mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship;
         "Remember me to your wife" [syn: commend]
      7: exercise, or have the power of, memory; "After the shelling,
         many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember
         better than others"
      8: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or
         something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th
         anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the
         dead of the First World War" [syn: commemorate]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remember \Re*mem"ber\ (r?-m?m"b?r), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Remembered (-b?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Remembering.] [OF.
     remebrer, L. rememorari; pref. re- re- + memorare to bring to
     remembrance, from memor mindful. See Memory, and cf.
     Rememorate.]
     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.
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              We are said to remember anything, when the idea of
              it arises in the mind with the consciousness that we
              have had this idea before.            --I. Watts.
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     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.
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              Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. --Ex. xx.
                                                    8.
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              That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,
              And something over to remember me by. --Shak.
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              Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. --Milton.
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     3. To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and
        impersonally. [Obs.] "Remembering them the trith of what
        they themselves known." --Milton.
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              My friends remembered me of home.     --Chapman.
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              Remember you of passed heaviness.     --Chaucer.
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              And well thou wost [knowest] if it remember thee.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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     4. To mention. [Obs.] "As in many cases hereafter to be
        remembered." --Ayliffe.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Remember \Re*mem"ber\ (r?-m?m"b?r), v. i.
     To execise or have the power of memory; as, some remember
     better than others. --Shak.
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