'Remembrance' definitions:
Definition of 'remembrance'
From: WordNet
noun
The ability to recall past occurrences [syn: remembrance, recollection, anamnesis]
noun
A recognition of meritorious service [syn: memorial, commemoration, remembrance]
Definition of 'Remembrance'
From: GCIDE
- Remembrance \Re*mem"brance\ (-brans), n. [OF. remembrance.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. [1913 Webster]
- Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection. [1913 Webster]
- This, ever grateful, in remembrance bear. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Something to be remembered; counsel; admoni??on; instruction. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. 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. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Recollection; reminiscence. See Memory. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'remembrance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Mnemosyne,
- 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