remembrance
pronunciation
How to pronounce remembrance in British English:
UK [rɪˈmembrəns]
How to pronounce remembrance in American English:
US [rɪˈmɛmbrəns]
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- Noun:
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- a recognition of meritorious service
Word Origin
- remembrance (n.)
- c. 1300, "a memory, recollection," from Old French remembrance (11c.), from remembrer (see remember). From late 14c. as "consideration, reflection; present consciousness of a past event; store of personal experiences available to recollection, capacity to recall the past." Also late 14c. as "memento, keepsake, souvenir," and "a commemoration, remembering, ritual of commemoration." Meaning "faculty of memory, capability of remembering" is early 15c. British Remembrance Day, the Sunday nearest Nov. 11 (originally in memory of the dead of World War I) is attested from 1921. A remembrancer (early 15c.) was a royal official of the Exchequer tasked with recording and collecting debts due to the Crown; hence also, figuratively "Death" (late 15c.).
Example
- 1. Today it is a place of pilgrimage and remembrance .
- 2. France marks a day of remembrance for the victims of slavery .
- 3. Down in the flood of remembrance , I weep like a child for the past .
- 4. Perhaps it will serve as an exemplary model of sober remembrance in the balkans in years to come .
- 5. That 's why we mark september 11th as a national day of service and remembrance .