Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

remembering

/ɹɪˈmɛm.b(ə.)ɹɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables: re-mem-ber-ing
IPA: /ɹɪˈmɛm.b(ə.)ɹɪŋ/

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of remember

noun

The act by which something is remembered.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"‘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.’"
"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."
"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 […]"

Usage

Inflected Forms

remembryng (alternative, obsolete) rememberings (plural)

Synonyms

remembrance recollection memory

Rhymes With

dismembering

Questions

How do you pronounce remembering?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈmɛm.b(ə.)ɹɪŋ/.
What does remembering mean?: present participle and gerund of remember

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