Remembrance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪˈmÉ›mbɹəns/
• Hyphenation: re + mem + brance

Alternative forms

• remembraunce

Origin

Old French remembrance, from the verb remembrer, from Late Latin rememorari. Equivalent to remember + -ance.

Full definition of remembrance

Noun

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.