ETYM Old Fren. remembrance.
1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
3. Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
4. That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered.
1. To be a memorial to a person or an event; SYN. memorialize, immortalize, record.
2. To call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; SYN. remember.
3. To mark by some ceremony or observation; SYN. mark.