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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reminder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a painful reminder
▪ The violence is a painful reminder that many issues have not yet been resolved.
a timely reminder (of sth)British English (= one that makes you remember something important)
▪ The crash served as a timely reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.
poignant reminder/image/moment etc
▪ a poignant reminder of our nation’s great sacrifices
salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc
▪ Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.
stark reminder
▪ a stark reminder of life under Communist rule
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
constant
▪ True, fruit is healthy, but it's also a constant reminder of food.
▪ The quadrant is a constant reminder of his limitations.
▪ The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
▪ Their victims stand as a constant reminder, both of their crimes, and of the reality they have tried to overturn.
▪ So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure, and no doubt it does me good.
▪ They were a constant reminder that this was no ordinary crime; that 168 people died and some one should pay.
▪ The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.
▪ There are constant reminders that we, too, are animal beings and part of nature, not mere observers.
gentle
▪ In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder.
▪ Would all teachers give out a gentle reminder please.
▪ If you forget, the helicopter will resume flying crabwise and give you a fairly gentle reminder.
▪ This is not meant to be harassment, just a gentle reminder.
painful
▪ In addition, the survivors are inevitably sur-rounded with the painful and grotesque reminders of the recent violence.
▪ The ocean carried painful reminders of the hundreds of lives lost.
permanent
▪ The famous clock tower stays as a permanent reminder.
▪ But the people of Princes Risborough can now point to a permanent reminder of a man they have never forgotten.
▪ And Carla ... that bloody Carla is like a permanent reminder of my bloody mistake!
▪ A more permanent reminder of the day was the Edinburgh crystal bowl that Sussex members presented to her.
poignant
▪ Somehow it was a poignant reminder that the eternal things do not change.
▪ Yesterday's report from Body Shop was a poignant reminder of the fate that can await highly-rated companies.
▪ Surely it is a poignant reminder of the capacity of the human being to suffer mental anguish.
salutary
▪ Those incidents are a salutary reminder of the dedication of police officers to protecting the public.
▪ The Crabb incident is a salutary reminder that one should never believe anything a government says about an incident involving intelligence.
sharp
▪ As I loaded them in there was a sharp reminder of the night before.
▪ The sentiment backfired at once with a sharp reminder of the hopelessness of her own dreams.
timely
▪ It is a timely reminder of when justice was swift and permanent.
▪ Mr. Chope My hon. Friend gives a timely reminder of the benefits of investment in our roads infrastructure.
▪ So the visit to this country by Boris Yeltsin is a timely reminder of the opportunities in that former superpower.
▪ This direct experience of seeing books being valued and enjoyed has been a timely reminder of their importance in the educational process.
▪ His book is a brilliant and timely reminder of what is left out in our various theories and models of language.
useful
▪ They are a useful visual reminder that the chapel attracted worshippers from the surrounding countryside.
▪ It is also a useful reminder that a science without difficulties is not a science at all.
▪ Diagrams and instructions on the top of the unit were a useful reminder on how to use the boiler.
▪ This is a useful reminder that video is just another aid at your disposal.
vivid
▪ His ebullient personality is a vivid reminder of the polymath of past times.
▪ It was a vivid reminder that descending the water column in a submarine is an unnatural act.
▪ This is a vivid reminder of the significant social effects of Government planning guidance.
▪ It was a vivid reminder of the stark difference between Washington news and real-world news.
■ VERB
issue
▪ The authority may issue a second reminder notice, but it is under no obligation to do so.
▪ Meanwhile, Bath were issuing a reminder that reports of their decline were a little premature.
need
▪ She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning.
▪ As she commented angrily to friends later, she could not see why Charles needed these constant reminders of Camilla.
▪ She didn't need the taunting reminder.
offer
▪ It offers a reminder of what can be achieved without recourse to star names or the Vienna Philharmonic.
▪ But the study also offers a sobering reminder about the financial squeeze on families at the bottom.
▪ Others even offer to send e-mail reminders of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
send
▪ We sent a reminder letter but received no reply.
▪ Others even offer to send e-mail reminders of upcoming birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
serve
▪ These are by Platzer of 1759 and serve as a reminder of the wealth of the silver mines in Bohemia and Silesia.
▪ They serve as reminders on the eve of the 21st century that we remain prisoners of our past.
▪ The initial letters spell the word H-O-W and serve as a reminder of how recovery is achieved through all one's relationships.
▪ It also serves as a reminder that I am not recommending a domestic Peace Corps but a literate upheaval.
▪ The deaths serve as a reminder that asthma is responsible for a continuing toll of personal tragedy.
Serves me right, but it always serves as a reminder too, whenever I fish a new swim.
▪ The remains of stocks and the whipping post serve as uncomfortable reminders of the not so good old days.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Finally, a reminder that the school concert will be on December 17.
▪ The dentist's office sent you a reminder about your appointment next week.
▪ We sent a reminder, but have not yet received a reply.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the study also offers a sobering reminder about the financial squeeze on families at the bottom.
▪ In the meantime a brief reminder of their meanings may be helpful.
▪ In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder.
▪ It is just a reminder to him that he is very important to me.
▪ She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning.
▪ They are living fossils, reminders of a universe now lost.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reminder

Reminder \Re*mind"er\ (-?r), n. One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reminder

"something which reminds," 1650s, agent noun from remind.

Wiktionary
reminder

n. 1 Someone or something that reminds. 2 (context finance English) Writing that reminds of open payments.

WordNet
reminder
  1. n. 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 [syn: admonisher, monitor]

Wikipedia
Reminder

Reminder may refer to:

  • The Reminder, a 2007 album by Feist
  • A Reminder, a 2011 EP by Drake Bell
  • ReminderNews, a newspaper in eastern Connecticut
  • The Reminder (Flin Flon), a Canadian newspaper
  • Reminder software
  • Reminders (application), an Apple application
  • "Reminder", a song by Mumford & Sons from their 2012 album Babel
Reminder (album)

Reminder is a studio album by the Norwegian band Pixel, released by Cuneiform Records on May 8, 2012 (RUNE 342).

Usage examples of "reminder".

He roused himself with the reminder that only those few paintings Blooded as Dioniso could harm him.

Back from the corner came a strange, trailing laugh, a reminder to Case Brandle that from now on he was working for The Shadow!

Talking with him while he was in his enchanted form was positively surreal and a graphic reminder of the sort of world Brewster had wound up in.

Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.

Even though the chairs had been put away, the room was still too vivid a reminder of the horticultural salon.

On the day Lo Manto was made a detective in Naples, Inspector Bartoni gave him a framed photo of Petrosino to be used as a steady reminder about the war he would wage and the sacrifice it would demand.

Another last-minute reminder: once she started on this, there was no turning back, Marghe tapped out the memorized sequence.

Then she realized it was just a reminder of the evil amulet Menzie wore.

He had seen the station thousands of times on his way from or to his small apartment and had long since decided that he preferred the more modern, efficient stations of the outer metro lines to this reminder of an earlier decadence.

He woke to the crowing of cockerels and the bang of a twelve pounder gun, a reminder that the world and the war went on.

In the thin tide of thought that washed between us there was no hint of moral preachment, merely a reminder of the limit I was on the verge of transgressing.

Walsh, as a reminder, you will recall we agreed earlier that as a courtesy to our hosts we would gather, organize and prioritize our questions.

The only reminders she had were the daily dose of the inhaler and the two radiographs she had framed and mounted on her wall.

His face became a mask, the skin drawn tightly over the bones, the eyes like refulgent globes of amber, the wide lips parted a little to show those fanglike foreteeth that humans usually did not notice, reminders that even the peaceful Nyssomu had been in their time hunters who went equipped with more than blowpipes and spears.

That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.