Remembrance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=mem=brance

CIDE DICTIONARY

Remembrance, n. [OF. remembrance.].

•  The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.  [1913 Webster]

  "Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage."  [1913 Webster]

  "Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.  [1913 Webster]

  "This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear."  [1913 Webster]
•  Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "And on his breast a bloody cross he bore,
  The dear remembrance of his dying Lord."  [1913 Webster]

  "Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake."  [1913 Webster]
•  Something to be remembered; counsel; admoniShak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Power of remembering; reach of personal knowledge; period over which one's memory extends.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thee I have heard relating what was done
  Ere my remembrance."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Recollection; reminiscence. See Memory.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Remembrance, n.
1 the act of remembering or process of being remembered.
2 a memory or recollection.
3 a keepsake or souvenir.
4 (in pl.) greetings conveyed through a third person.

Idiom

Remembrance Day
1 = Remembrance Sunday.
2 hist. Armistice Day. Remembrance Sunday (in the UK) the Sunday nearest 11 Nov., when those who were killed in the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 are commemorated.

Etymology

ME f. OF (as REMEMBER)

THESAURUS

Remembrance

Mnemosyne, affect memory, aide-memoire, anamnesis, anniversaries, anterograde memory, arch, atavism, barrow, best love, best regards, best wishes, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, celebrating, celebration, cenotaph, ceremony, collective memory, column, commemoration, commitment to memory, compliments, computer memory, cromlech, cross, cue, cup, cyclolith, devoirs, disk memory, dolmen, dressing ship, drum memory, egards, emotional response, engram, exercise of memory, fanfare, fanfaronade, favor, festivity, flapper, flashback, flourish of trumpets, footstone, gift, good wishes, grave, gravestone, greetings, headstone, heroic legend, hindsight, hint, hoarstone, holiday, immortal name, immortality, information storage, inscription, jogger, jubilee, keepsake, kind regards, kindest regards, kinesthetic memory, learning by heart, legend, looking back, love, marker, marking the occasion, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memento mori, memoir, memorabilia, memorandum, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorialization, memorials, memories, memorization, memorizing, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, menhir, mind, mneme, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, observance, ovation, pillar, plaque, present, prize, prompt, prompter, prompting, pyramid, race memory, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reexperiencing, reflection, regards, rejoicing, relic, religious rites, reliquary, reliving, remembering, remembrancer, remembrances, reminder, reminiscence, respects, retrospect, retrospection, revel, review, revival, ribbon, rite, ritual observance, rostral column, rote, rote memory, salute, salvo, screen memory, shaft, shrine, skill, solemn observance, solemnization, souvenir, stela, stone, study, stupa, tablet, tape memory, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, tickler, toast, token, token of remembrance, tomb, tombstone, tope, tribute, triumph, trophy, undying fame, verbal response, visual memory, youth

ROGET THESAURUS

Remembrance

Memory

N memory, remembrance, retention, retentiveness, tenacity, veteris vestigia flammae, tablets of the memory, readiness, reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration, recurrence, flashback, retrospect, retrospection, afterthought, post script, PS, suggestion, prompting, hint, reminder, remembrancer, flapper, memorial, commemoration, note, memo, memorandum, things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir, keepsake, relic, memorabilia, art of memory, artificial memory, memoria technica, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, phrenotypics, Mnemosyne, prompt-book, crib sheet, cheat sheet, retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green memory, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection, perfect memory, total recall, celebrity, fame, renown, reputation, remembering, remembered, mindful, reminiscential, retained in the memory, pent up in one's memory, fresh, green, green in remembrance, unforgotten, present to the mind, within one's memory, indelible, uppermost in one's thoughts, memorable, by heart, by rote, without book, memoriter, in memory of, in memoriam, memoria in aeterna, suggestive, manet alta mente repostum, forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit, absens haeres non erit, beatae memoriae, briefly thyself remember, mendacem memorem esse oportet, memory the warder of the brain, parsque est meminisse doloris, to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, vox audita peril littera scripta manet, out of sight, out of mind.