Let us talk about the word ‘remember.’
Remember: verb
- have in or be able to bring to one’s mind an awareness of (someone or something that you have seen, known, or experienced in the past): I remembered the guy’s face as he approached me on the street.
- do something that you have meant to do: Thanks God, I remembered to take my umbrella. It is raining cats and dogs.
- Bring greetings from one person to another: Please remember me to Paul. (=Say ‘hello’ to Paul from me. Give him my regards.)
- Pray for the wellbeing of someone: The Secret Poet Society should be remembered in our prayers.
- Keep (someone) in mind by making them a gift or making provision for them: He has remembered the orphaned boy in his will.
Remember: commemorate, recall, recollect, bear in mind, call to mind.
Opposites of remember: forget, miss, misunderstand, repress, disregard.
Remembrance: noun
The photo album makes a nice remembrance of the wedding.
to remember + (Object)
e.g. to remember it
it, that, someone, word, thing, name, this, anything, all,
to remember + Adverb
e.g. to remember no more
no more, only
Subject + remember+(e)s
e.g. remember +(e)s
reader, people, no one, ex-cadets, many, nobody, everyone,
to remember + Prep + Noun
e.g. to remember for role
with affection, for role as, one for working, in prayer, for contribution, with gratitude, as man/as author,
A few idioms connected with memory:
Refresh someone’s memory: to remind someone of something they forgot
Let me refresh your memory; you have already forgotten to take out the garbage three times this week. Please do it ASAP.
Commit something to memory: try to remember very hard, make an effort to remember something
I always commit to memory all my students’ names.
Trip down the memory lane: a situation when people talk about something that happened in the past
His every B-Day was a trip down the memory lane for him because he took out old photo albums and remembered the past.