Remember

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/

Definitions

1. To retain in memory and be able to call back to mind past experiences or information ; to think again about someone or something ; to pay tribute to a person, event, or occasion through conscious attention
2. To bring to mind or keep in one's thoughts a past fact, person, or event ; to care for or consider someone by recalling them fondly ; to observe or honor an occasion by mindful reflection
3. To summon mental awareness of information or experiences from the past ; to recognize and think of someone or something again ; to mark or commemorate a person, event, or memory with deliberate attention

Etymology: The verb "remember" arrived in English from Old French "remembrer," which in turn came from Late Latin "rememorari," meaning "to remember again." Its ancestry is a compound of "re-" and "memor" ("mindful"), so at its core it is a word about bringing a thing back into the mind. English already had a near-twin on hand: the Germanic "mimorian," which meant "to remember, commemorate," and which may have helped the French import take hold. Both words share a distant Indo-European source that also sits behind "mourn." The story gets stranger because English had several native words for the same idea, and most of them lost out. Middle English speakers could choose among "ȝemuneȝen," "munden," "minnen," "ithenchen," and "manien," each inherited from Old English or Old Norse, yet the French-derived form displaced them. Only the French word survived as the everyday verb, while its rivals are now largely forgotten. Modern English keeps its own "re-" and "member" visible in the compound, a reminder of the French-Latin layering beneath the surface.

Synonyms: recall, recollect, retain, memorize, recognize

Antonyms: forget, overlook, neglect, disregard, miss