reminiscence

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
noun the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

From Late Latin reminīscentiae (“remembrances”), from Latin reminīscēns, present active participle of reminīscor (“remember”); see reminiscent.

#Gorky, Maxim.# Reminiscences of Tolstoi. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
THREE OF THEM: A REMINISCENCE. — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson, Bishop, his “Reminiscences,” 215. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

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