Reminder

Definition: Reminder

Reminder

Noun

1. A message that helps you remember something; "he ignored his wife's reminders".

2. An experience that causes you to remember something.

3. Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "reminder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Reminder

Memory

Suggestion; (information); prompting; Verb: hint, reminder; remembrancer, flapper; memorial; (record); commemoration; (celebration).

Crosswords: Reminder

I think you need a reminder of how painful reality can be. (End of Days; writing credit: Andrew W. Marlowe)

Just a reminder. You know, with the baby coming, she just wants us to be extra safe (Promised Land; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois)

A quick reminder these reports are not intended to foster belief in astrology, but merely to support people who cannot take responsibility for their own lives (The Kentucky Fried Movie; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

For one brief embarrassing moment, I chose to give up. But your words were just the reminder I needed (Barbershop; writing credit: Mark Brown)

A reminder of what happiness is like (Mental Picture; performing artist: Jon Secada)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bill Paying Reminder and Filing System (reference)

• Cause-and-Effect Diagrams: Plain & Simple (Learning and Application Guide, 3 Templates, and Quick Reminder) (reference)

• Introduction to the Tools: Plain & Simple* Learning and Application Guide and Quick Reminder (reference)

• Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance (A Daily Reminder) (reference)

• Reminder (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dalles Weekly Reminder (reference)

• St Johns Reminder (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Reminder (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Tupperware One Touch Reminder Canisters, Set of 4, Bold 'N Blue (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A reminder that even paradise has rules. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Miles Hill speaks with Oregon State Police (a reminder not to pick wildflowers in parks, natural preserves, etc.). Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Entrance foyer, first floor, from south. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, June 1984. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARK,26-HOSP,1-D-17) Praised by its original owner as "the most practical, complete, and luxurious bathhouse in the world," the Fordyce Bathhouse in Hot Springs stands today as a reminder of the international health-spa craze of the first half of the twentieth century. People from all over the world flocked to the Fordyce and the other bathhouses on "Bathhouse Row" in Hot Springs in the hope that the many natural springs in the area would help cure their illnesses. Visitors at the Fordyce bought their bath tickets in this foyer before proceeding to the dressing rooms and then to the baths. Today, the Fordyce Bathhouse is the Visitor Center at Hot Springs National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Army General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. : A reminder of Civil War days in Philadelphia. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Another reminder. Credit: Library of Congress.

After having scolded the German boy, the schoolmaster gets a sharp reminder from little Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

This grim reminder wends its way northward, from Chateau Thierry to Soissons. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

This delicacy accommodated itself to the serge dress, finding in its harsh touch a continual reminder of Heaven and of God.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Other diseases and conditions which cause or contribute to insomnia, such as congestive heart failure, hyperthyroidism, pulmonary disease, esophageal reflux, and arthritis, should be treated specifically with the reminder that medications such as steroids and theophylline may cause sleep disturbance, as can the timing of administration of diuretics. (references)

Economic History

Grenada

A more significant reminder of Grenada's historical link with France is the strength of the Roman Catholic Church to which about 60% of Grenadians belong. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "reminder": gentle reminder ♦ reminder advertising ♦ reminder call ♦ Reminder Systems. Additional references.

Arabic 

مذكرة (note), ‏مذكرة (aide-memoire, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, motion, note, notebook, pocket book, warrant), ‏تذكير (admonition, mention). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нещо което напомня (remembrancer, reminiscence), напомняне (memento, prompt, recall, redolence), подсещане (cue, reminding). (various references)

Chinese 

提示 (HINT, Prompt, Prompted, Prompting). (various references)

Czech

upomínka (demand, dunning letter, remembrance, souvenir, token), připomínka (memento, remark). (various references)

Danish

rykkerbrev (letter of recall, notice of recail), rykker (letter of recall, notice of recail), skriftlig rykker (letter of recall, notice of recail). (various references)

Dutch

rappelbrief (letter of recall, notice of recail), rappel (letter of recall, notice of recail, recall). (various references)

Farsi 

یاداوری کننده , یاداوری (Mention, Remembrance, Reminiscence), یاداور (Memento, Reminiscent). (various references)

Finnish

muistutus (comment, objection, remark, reprimand, reproof), muistuttaja. (various references)

French

rappel (recall, recalling, return). (various references)

German

Rest (balance, carryover, end, left over, relic, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scrap, tail), mahnung (admonition, exhortation, monition, warning), Mahnschreiben (letter of recall, notice of recail), Mahnbrief (letter of recall, notice of recail), gedächtnisstütze (memory aid, mnemonic), erinnerung (keepsake, memento, memorization, memory, recollection, rememberance, remembrance, remembrance (of), reminiscence, retrospection, souvenir). (various references)

Greek 

υπόμνηση (memorialization, reminding), υπενθύμιση (fillip), υπομήνηση, υπομήνημα (memo), ενθύμιο (keepsake, memento, remembrance, remeobrance, souvenir), ενθυμητήσ (remembrancer), επιστολή υπενθύμισης (letter of recall, notice of recail). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזכר (memorandum), תזכיר (memo, memorandum), תזכורת (memorandum, slip). (various references)

Hungarian

figyelmeztetés (admonishment, admonition, caution, caveat, cue, exhortation, expostulation, notice, notification, remonstrance, tip off, tip-off, warning). (various references)

Italian

ricordo (keepsake, memory, recollection, record, remembrance, souvenir). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

備忘 , 念押し . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねんおし, びぼう (beautiful face, beauty, good looks). (various references)

Korean 

신호 (signal, signaling, Signalling). (various references)

Manx

cooinaghtane (keepsake, souvenir). (various references)

Pig Latin

eminderray.(various references)

Portuguese

lembrete (refresher), lembrança (felicity, keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recollection, refresher, relic, remembrance, souvenir), carta de advertência, advertência (admonishment, admonition, advertence, monition, monitory, observation, remonstrance, reprimand, warning). (various references)

Romanian

rapel (rappel), memento (memento, remembrancer, tickler, vade mecum), aluzie (allusion, gentle reminder, half word, hint, inkling, pointing, reference, suggestion). (various references)

Russian 

напоминание (memento, refresher). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podsetnik (agenda, blotter, memo pad), opomena (admonishment, monition, remonstrance, summons, warning). (various references)

Spanish

recuerdo (association, commemoration, keepsake, memento, memory, recollection, remembrance, reminiscence, souvenir, token), recordatorio (souvenir), recordacion (memory, recollection), notificación (advice note, notification), carta recordatorio (letter of recall, notice of recail), advertencia (admonition, advice note, caution, caveat, premonition, tip, warning). (various references)

Swedish

påminnelse (cue). (various references)

Turkish

hatırlatıcı mektup, hatırlatıcı şey. (various references)

Ukrainian

нагадування (memento, refresher). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cái nhắc nhở (remembrancer). (various references)

admonitio, admonitionibus, ammonites, commonitione, commonitionem, monumenta, monumenti, monumentis, monumento, monumentum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "reminder": reminders. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Reminder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Armieder, Arnander, Brennender, Brijinder, Gemeinden, Permindar, Rabinder, remiander, remindes, remined, remminder, Rupinder. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reremind.

-1 letter: dernier, ermined, nerdier.

-2 letters: denier, ermine, mender, minder, nereid, reined, remend, remind, render.

-3 letters: denim, diene, dimer, diner, direr, drier, eider, emend, ender, erred, merde, merer, mined, miner, mired, rider, rimed, rimer.

-4 letters: deem, deer, deme, dene, deni, dere, derm, dime, dine, dire, dree, eide, emir, erne, idem, ired, meed, mend, mere, mien, mind.

+1 letter: misrender, remainder, reminders, rereminds.

+2 letters: determiner, misrenders, modernizer, redreaming, reinformed, remainders, rereminded.

+3 letters: demergering, determiners, embordering, gendarmerie, irredentism, misinferred, misinterred, misrendered, modernizers, reconfirmed, redetermine, remaindered, reprimanded, rereminding.

+4 letters: determinator, embroidering, gendarmeries, intermarried, intermeddler, intermediary, irredentisms, merchandiser, misrendering, overinformed, predetermine, recriminated, redemptioner, redetermined, redetermines, remaindering, renormalized.

+5 letters: demineralizer, determinators, dysmenorrheic, intercompared, intermeddlers, mediterranean, merchandisers, predetermined, predeterminer, predetermines, preordainment, redemptioners, redetermining, retransmitted.