remembering

English

Alternative forms

• remembryng (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmɛmb(ə)ɹɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: re‧mem‧ber‧ing

Verb

remembering

1. present participle and gerund of remember

Noun

remembering (countable and uncountable, plural rememberings)

1. The act by which something is remembered.

   Synonyms: remembrance, recollection

   • 1926, A. A. Milne, “In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin”, in Winnie-the-Pooh:

     ‘I do remember,’ he said, ‘only Pooh doesn’t very well, so that’s why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it’s a real story and not just a remembering.’

   • 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering:

     The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.

   • 1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change:

     In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]