'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

Words containing 'Remembrance'