REMEMBRANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remembrance mean? 

• REMEMBRANCE (noun)
  The noun REMEMBRANCE has 2 senses:

1. the ability to recall past occurrences

2. a recognition of meritorious service

  Familiarity information: REMEMBRANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMEMBRANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ability to recall past occurrences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

anamnesis; recollection; remembrance

Hypernyms ("remembrance" is a kind of...):

memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity (the power of retaining and recalling past experience)

Derivation:

remember (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection)

remember (keep in mind for attention or consideration)

remember (recapture the past; indulge in memories)

remember (call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony)

remember (exercise, or have the power of, memory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A recognition of meritorious service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

commemoration; memorial; remembrance

Hypernyms ("remembrance" is a kind of...):

credit; recognition (approval)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remembrance"):

epitaph (a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person)

festschrift (a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar)

Derivation:

remember (mention favorably, as in prayer)

remember (show appreciation to)

 Context examples 

He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His remembrance can be overcome by no change of circumstances or opinions.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I can make no claim therefore to have known, at that time, how matters stood; or to have any remembrance, founded on the evidence of my own senses, of what follows.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No wonder you should hold my speeches in such affectionate remembrance.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She was in a reverie of sweet remembrances.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And who was to say that such a remembrance might not sway the balance of their judgment just a trifle in his favor?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only emotion which could spring from a consideration of the building.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The last hours were certainly very painful, replied Anne; but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)