Definition

1. Verb:
   • To recall or bring back to mind: To have or keep an image, idea, or fact in your conscious thought from the past.
   • To retain in memory; to not forget: To keep information or an intention in your mind for future reference or action.
   • To mention someone to another person as a greeting: To convey friendly greetings from one person to another.
   • To keep someone in mind for a gift or reward: To show appreciation or thoughtfulness, often through a gift or mention.

Usage and Examples

• Recalling the past:
  • I remember my first day at school very clearly.
  • Can you remember where you put the keys?
• Retaining information or an intention:
  • Please remember to lock the door when you leave.
  • It is important to remember the rules of the game.
• Conveying greetings:
  • She asked me to remember her to your family.
• Showing appreciation:
  • He remembered all his employees in his will.

Advanced Usage

• "Remember oneself": To regain one's composure or self-control after a lapse.
  • After shouting, he paused, remembered himself, and apologized.
• "To be remembered for": To be famous or noted for a particular action or quality.
  • She will be remembered for her contributions to science.

Variants and Related Words

• Remembrance (n): The act of remembering or the state of being remembered; a memory.
  • The ceremony was held in remembrance of those who died.
• Memorable (adj): Worth remembering or easily remembered.
  • It was a memorable vacation.
• Memorize (v): To learn something so that you remember it perfectly.
  • The actor had to memorize his lines.

Synonyms

• Recall: To bring a fact, event, or feeling back into your mind.
• Recollect: To remember something, often by making an effort to do so.
• Retain: To keep or continue to have something, such as information in your mind.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs. Its core meanings are expressed through its direct use with objects or infinitives.)

Related Idioms

• "Remember your manners": An instruction to behave politely.
  • Children, remember your manners at the dinner table.
• "If I remember correctly (IIRC)": A phrase used to introduce a statement that you believe is true but are not entirely sure about.
  • If I remember correctly, the meeting starts at 3 PM.

Verb

1. 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
2. exercise, or have the power of, memory
   • After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember
   • some remember better than others
3. mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
   • Remember me to your wife
4. mention favorably, as in prayer
   • remember me in your prayers
5. show appreciation to
   • He remembered her in his will
6. recapture the past; indulge in memories
   • he remembered how he used to pick flowers
7. keep in mind for attention or consideration
   • Remember the Alamo
   • Remember to call your mother every day!
   • Think of the starving children in India!
8. 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