# remind

Pronunciation: US say "ri-MYND" /ɹəˈmaɪnd/; UK

## Verb

1. To cause someone to remember something, or to bring a matter back to their attention.
   - Simple: To make someone remember something, or to help them not forget it.
   - _Remind the team that the quarterly report is due Friday._
   - _The old photographs reminded him of his childhood home._

## Noun

2. An act of reminding someone of something, or the reminder itself. *(nonstandard)*
   - Simple: Something you say or send to help a person remember.
   - _Drop me a remind closer to the date, will you?_
   - _He needed one more remind before he finally paid the overdue bill._

## Origin

Dating from the mid 17th century, this word combines 're-' with 'mind' (in the sense 'to remember'). It was probably suggested by the now-obsolete 'rememorate', which had the same meaning, and it replaced the Old English 'myndgian'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/remind (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).