Meaning & Definition of Remember in English

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"

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!"

3. Recapture the past

• Indulge in memories

• "He remembered how he used to pick flowers"

4. Show appreciation to

• "He remembered her in his will"

5. Mention favorably, as in prayer

• "Remember me in your prayers"

6. Mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship

• "Remember me to your wife"

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"