remembrance
noun/rɪˈmembrəns/
/rɪˈmembrəns/
- [uncountable] the act or process of remembering an event in the past or a person who is dead
- in remembrance of somebody/something A service was held in remembrance of local soldiers killed in the war.
- a remembrance service
- (formal) He smiled at the remembrance of their first kiss.
- a chapel/garden of remembrance (= in memory of people who have died)
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- [countable] (formal) an object that causes you to remember somebody/something; a memory of somebody/something
- The cenotaph stands as a remembrance of those killed during the war.
- The group shared their remembrances of life at school.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from remembrer, from late Latin rememorari ‘call to mind’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + Latin memor ‘mindful’.
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