REMINDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reminder mean? 

• REMINDER (noun)
  The noun REMINDER has 3 senses:

1. a message that helps you remember something

2. an experience that causes you to remember something

3. someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

  Familiarity information: REMINDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMINDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A message that helps you remember something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he ignored his wife's reminders

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

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

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

phylactery; tefillin ((Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer)

Derivation:

remind (put in the mind of someone)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An experience that causes you to remember something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)

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

deja vu (the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before)

memento; souvenir (a reminder of past events)

memento mori (a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality)

shades ((plural) something that reminds you of someone or something)

Derivation:

remind (put in the mind of someone)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admonisher; monitor; reminder

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

defender; guardian; protector; shielder (a person who cares for persons or property)

 Context examples 

As he had continued to look steadily at me, I took it as a reminder that he objected to being extolled for his consideration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Dent here bent over to the pious lady and whispered something in her ear; I suppose, from the answer elicited, it was a reminder that one of the anathematised race was present.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You may find payments that are due you will be slow to arrive, so you may have to send clients gentle statement reminders.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She began well, thanks to a silent reminder that came to her unexpectedly, but most opportunely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, and a year is one revolution around the Sun — reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet's motion in space.

(Deep-sea sediments lead to new understanding of solar system, National Science Foundation)

This momentous pocket-book was a timely reminder to him of another transaction.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If anyone owes you money, send them a gentle reminder at the end of January because checks that you expect may be delayed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Feeling stronger than ever to meet and subdue her Apollyon, she pinned the note inside her frock, as a shield and a reminder, lest she be taken unaware, and proceeded to open her other letter, quite ready for either good or bad news.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Doctor, in the goodness of his heart, waved his hand as if to make light of it, and save Mr. Jack Maldon from any further reminder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If one or more people owe you money, you might have to wait for payment, so do your best to send out reminder notes early in the month, most beneficially in the first week.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)