remind

Verb
US[ree-mahynd]/riˈmaɪnd/2 syllables
Synonyms: promptcue

Open English WordNet

Verb (2)reminds, reminded, reminding

  1. put in the mind of someone“Remind me to call Mother”More general act, moveMore specific nag, take back, commemorateCauses remember, retrieve
  2. assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learnedSynonyms: promptcueMore general inform
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Translations

Verb cause one to experience a memory

Spanish
recordar
French
rappeler
German
erinnern
Italian
ricordare
Portuguese
recordar
Russian
напомина́ть napominátʹ
Arabic
ذَكَّرَ ḏakkara
Chinese
提醒 tíxǐng
19 more languages
Swedish
påminna
Greek
θυμίζω thymízo
Vietnamese
nhắc nhở
Hungarian
emlékeztet
Portuguese (PT)
recordar
Chinese (Trad.)
提醒 tíxǐng
Catalan
recordar
Danish
minde om
Esperanto
memorigi
Finnish
muistuttaa
Hebrew
הִזְכִּיר hizkír
Icelandic
minna
Norwegian
minne
Romanian
aminti
Serbo-Croatian
podsjećati
Welsh
atgoffa
Yiddish
דערמאַנען dermanen

The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Re·mind′ (r?-m?nd′), transitive verb

To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).

When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality.— Robert South

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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