remind

[ri-mahynd]

SEE MORE SYNONYMS FOR remind ON THESAURUS.COM

verb (used with object)

to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.

Origin of remind

First recorded in 1635–45; re- + mind

Related formsre·re·mind, verb (used with object)un·re·mind·ed, adjective

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for remind

note, stress, prod, prompt, remember, mention, suggest, warn, admonish, caution, emphasize, recall, advise, retrospect, intimate, hint, revive, recollect, reminisce, imply

Examples from the Web for remind

Contemporary Examples of remind

But the ads are not just intended to remind the Google-curious that Paul exists and is thinking about running for president.
Rand Paul’s Passive-Aggressive Trolling Campaign
Olivia Nuzzi
January 6, 2015
They had also come “to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.”
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’
Peter Guralnick
December 28, 2014
You remind us that men and women have imperfection in common, and are indivisible.
Living Black & Gay in the ’50s
Alain Mabanckou
December 3, 2014
Sciamma still wants to remind us that they are still children.
‘Girlhood’: Coming of Age in France’s Projects
Molly Hannon
November 25, 2014
I remind Deen that his namesake died in an infamously horrible car crash, so he may want to cool it on texting and driving.
My Bizarre Night With James Deen, Libertarian Porn Star
Emily Shire
November 12, 2014

Historical Examples of remind

Your eye searches for whatever may remind you of the living world.
The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was there in this cross girl to remind any one in his senses of Mrs. Evan Roberts?
Ester Ried Yet Speaking
Isabella Alden
When she spoke there was little to remind me of her momentary loss of self-command.
The Bacillus of Beauty
Harriet Stark
Some one ventured to remind him of his dream, but his laugh was ready.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Remind me of the people who live about the foothills of the Balkans.
The Underdog
F. Hopkinson Smith

British Dictionary definitions for remind

remind

verb

(tr usually foll by of; may take a clause as object or an infinitive) to cause (a person) to remember (something or to do something); make (someone) aware (of something he may have forgotten)remind me to phone home; flowers remind me of holidays

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Word Origin and History for remind

1640s, "to remember," from re- "again" + mind (v.). Meaning "to put (someone) in mind of (something)" is first recorded 1650s. Related: Reminded; reminding.