remembrance.

1. The act of keeping a person or past event in mind, especially with respect after death.

2. A remembered person, event, or experience from the past.

3. An object kept or given to preserve the memory of a person, place, or experience.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• in remembrance of
• an act of remembrance
• a place of remembrance

On the page

They planted an oak in remembrance of the teacher who had opened the school.

Usage notes

Primary category: poetic / figurative / atmospheric. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable for commemoration; countable singular remembrance; plural remembrances for memories and keepsakes. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Commemoration, a remembered experience and a physical keepsake differ. Primary commemoration is not simply the anecdotal recalling already covered by reminiscence. Writing functions: literary expression, memory or character interpretation.