remember meaning and definition

REMEMBER verb

Definition of remember (verb)

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"
   • synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think
   • antonym: blank out
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!"
   • synonyms: think of
   • antonym: bury
3. recapture the past; indulge in memories
   • "he remembered how he used to pick flowers"
   • synonyms: think back
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"
   • synonyms: commend
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"
   • synonyms: commemorate