1The action of remembering something.

1. 1.1 The action of remembering the dead.
   a chapel of remembrance

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Spending a few minutes in remembrance of lives that ended for yours is a pale substitute for the recognition that the ideas and actions that stoked the fires in Germany, in Japan and in Russia are readily found anywhere.
   • The remaining stones were counted to determine the number of dead, then placed in a great heap in remembrance of those who died in battle.
   • The use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance comes from John McCrae's poem ‘In Flanders Fields.’
   • At the end of the green dock is a delicate pavilion for remembrance of the war dead of Newham, the local borough.
   • Speeches extolled national unity, imperial loyalty, remembrance of the dead, and the need for young men to volunteer.
   • In the foreground, however, the mother of one of the ‘disappeared’ kneels at a makeshift shrine in a quite moment of remembrance.
   • A silent walk in remembrance of the victims of war led to a meadow where women called for healing.
   • The last three of these holidays were all about remembrance of the dead.
   • He was playing it, he said, ‘in remembrance of my partner Mary.’
   • Williams insisted the service was toned down to one of remembrance for the victims on both sides of the conflict.
   • And NASA named a day of remembrance to honor the astronauts killed in the Colombia, Challenger and the Apollo disaster.
   • Today an unprecedented three-minute silence will be held across Europe in remembrance of the disaster victims.
   • I forget, what were you doing last year that was so important as to miss the national remembrance in honour of the war dead?
   • Funerary practices normally involve a simple ceremony of blessings and remembrance by family members and friends in a chapel or funeral parlor, leading to interment or cremation.
   • There will be a service of remembrance at the Museum Chapel.
   • Aptly in this bicentennial year of Trafalgar, the Senior Service was at the hub of ceremonies of remembrance to mark the nation's war dead at home and aboard.
   • The seventh day after death, the fortieth day, and annual remembrance are the accepted way of respecting the dead.
   • These places were, and continue to be, sites of remembrance, along with the hundreds of military cemeteries that were built along the front itself.
   • Sarah whispered softly in remembrance of her dear friend who had passed away two years ago.
   • They have lit the flame of remembrance in L.A., an expression of unity and remembrance to the victims of bigotry, intolerance, referring of course to the Holocaust.

   Synonyms

   commemoration, memory, recognition
2. 1.2count noun A memory or recollection.
   they exchanged fond remembrances of his gentle ways

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Memory and remembrances of your youth tend to have a larger and larger place in your recent books.
   • My memories surrounding this creek are, it would seem, classic childhood remembrances.
   • Soon, Sam became a fond memory instead of a painful remembrance.
   • I have fond remembrances of this year of the series.
   • My remembrance of him was when he was running for president he said, ‘Well, I'm going to raise your taxes.’
   • Unfortunately, like too many other things on this disc, it is too brief, too shallow, and lacking in important personal perspectives and remembrances from the people who knew Mr. Reagan best.
   • When covering Glenn's early years, it reads like a mother's fond remembrances.
   • This is natural, of course; the tendency to romanticize relationships, the fear of being alone trumping truthful remembrances of paranoia and neuroticism, is one of the cuter things humans do.
   • The only topic at the conference discussed with greater frequency than fond remembrances of Teddy Roosevelt was the assertion that conservation is part and parcel of a real conservative ideology.
   • She also warned witnesses not to ‘contaminate’ their remembrances by talking to other people or reporters.
   • From my vague remembrances of her, the role of Snow White seemed, at least physically fitting for her.
   • Her success in the marketplace arose from exactly the values expressed in her verse: friendship between women, generosity even in times of adversity, and the pleasures of small remembrances.
   • It is they which evoke remembrances of a lost war and exiled dynasty, a failed republic, a terrorist dictatorship, and horrendous devastation in the wake of still another lost war, and, finally, the trauma of a divided city.
   • Her bittersweet remembrances were shoved into the back of her mind.
   • Like everyone born in the 60s or later, I learned this through the nauseating repetition of misty remembrances of the 1960s by people who were around then - or claim they were.
   • But some critics are concerned that the fond remembrances are coming off as distorted hero worship.
   • Hannah's remembrances of things past, however, are sometimes skewed by subtle dissonances and a sense of anxiety that disturb the apparent placidity of his picture-perfect world.
   • Rachel remained silent as the memories and remembrances from years past assaulted her senses and her calm.
   • Howie, you're a little bit younger than I am, but you may have a vague remembrance of this.
   • The resulting dramatic theme is the idea that politics and philosophies are always connected to memory and that it's these individual remembrances that come together to create a larger ‘history.’

   Synonyms

   recollection, reminiscence, nostalgia

   remembering, recalling, recollecting, reminiscing

   technical anamnesis

   memory, recollection, reminiscence, echo from the past, mental image, thought
3. 1.3count noun A thing kept or given as a reminder or in commemoration of someone.
   I went through the papers and remembrances in his drawers

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The small wooden crosses which the teens constructed and erected in memory of all three accident victims were twice pulled up, the other remembrances indiscriminately scattered nearby, by unknown parties.
   • Each piece has a story behind it, each is a remembrance of a life well-lived.
   • Now, the toys were surrounded by flowers, ‘missing you'-type posters, picture remembrances and teddy bears.
   • The Main Dining Room is an elegant remembrance of the Napoleonic era.
   • My war museum must have empty rooms that will be filled with personal remembrances.
   • Dubbed ‘The Memorial for Peace’ the building and its contents are a reminder and a remembrance of those thousands who died in the landings on the nearby beaches.
   • I send you this picture as a remembrance to those Canadians who rest in peace over here.
   • Besides looking into the blessed future, it serves as a remembrance of the bitter past.
   • Indeed, regardless of any stated policy, the markers in this section were adorned with tributes and remembrances of all kinds, including framed photographs, key chains, coins, stuffed animals and miniature flags.

   Synonyms

   memento, reminder, keepsake, souvenir, token, commemoration, memorial, relic, something to remember someone by

   archaic remembrancer