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say it: ri-MEM-bur
remember is a verb meaning "recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection". It carries 8 recorded senses.
recapture the past; indulge in memories
“he remembered how he used to pick flowers”
exercise, or have the power of, memory
“After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember”
“some remember better than others”
call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
“We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz”
“Remember the dead of the First World War”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for remember come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.