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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reminisce
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ They reminisced about old times, particularly their weeks together at Biarritz.
▪ For a few seconds, you find yourself reminiscing about rainy afternoons, cookies and milk, naps on the floor.
▪ Who are the anglers that people will be able to reminisce about?
▪ Justinette and Cable listed which nightclubs they intended to visit, while Urran reminisced about favourite sites of conquest.
▪ Instead, they are reminiscing about the process of creativity, of production and of distribution, 30 years on.
■ NOUN
days
▪ There's nothing she likes better than to reminisce about the days when my ... my father was a boy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At club meetings, we like to reminisce, remembering old times.
▪ I used to spend hours listening to my grandfather reminisce about life in the army.
▪ Lazlo enjoyed reminiscing about his life in Poland before he went to America.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Back at the car park we had a well earned cuppa and reminisced over another hot day back in 1933.
▪ For a few seconds, you find yourself reminiscing about rainy afternoons, cookies and milk, naps on the floor.
▪ He was in Toksu Palace, where he had enjoyed the evening, reminiscing with attendants about the old days.
▪ Jenny talked about her flying experiences whilst Billie reminisced about the warmth of her native Southern California.
▪ Jermyn reminisces about a certain woman with whom he once indulged his passion and vanity.
▪ The entertainment is the pleasure of reminiscing with one's friends and making a couple of witty speeches.
▪ The retired can squat, smoke, reminisce and grow old and die in familiar, comfortable surroundings.
▪ You might think about your family and get a warm feeling, but you have to reminisce to feel that way.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reminisce

1829, "to recollect," back-formation from reminiscence. Meaning "indulge in reminiscences" is from 1871. "Somewhat colloquial" [OED]. Related: Reminisced; reminiscing.

Wiktionary
reminisce

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically. 2 (context intransitive English) To talk or write about memory of the past, especially pleasant memories.

WordNet
reminisce

v. recall the past; "The grandparents sat there, reminiscing all afternoon"

Wikipedia
Reminisce

Reminisce means to recall a memory, often fondly or nostalgically.

Reminisce and its variants may also refer to:

Reminisce (artist)

Reminisce (aka REM, pseudonyms of Ruby Rose Neri) is a sculptor, painter, and former street artist from San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, known for her portrayal of horses.

Reminisce (song)

"Reminisce" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige from her debut album, What's the 411?. The song was co-written by Kenny Greene and Dave "Jam" Hall, the song's producer. The song contains a sample of "Stop, Look, Listen" by American rapper MC Lyte. It peaked at number fifty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. A more uptempo and hip hop-inspired remix of the song, featuring duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth, later appeared on Blige's 1993 remix album of the same name.

Reminisce (musician)

Remilekun Abdulkalid Safaru, known by his stage names Reminisce and ALAGA IBILE, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, and song writer from Ogun State. He performs in both English and his native language, Yoruba.

In the English language, the name Reminisce means to indulge in the enjoyable recollection of past events, and the first four letters are a shortened form of the name Remilekun.

Usage examples of "reminisce".

How easy to reminisce about the girl who spent so many hours in that room, intoxicatedly pursuing a dream that had been all that she could then comprehend of the greater dream of knowledge and power.

The sound of voices in the kitchen had died to a murmur, as though the ghosts of the past gathered there to drink and reminisce, laughing softly among themselves.

Even in the last three or four years of his life, at Supreme Army Headquarters, where he allowed himself to be overwhelmed with details of military strategy, tactics and command, he would take an evening off to reminisce with his old party cronies on the stupidity of the teachers he had had in his youth.

By that time all the important Nazi leaders, with Hitler at their head, had hurriedly left the premises, though it had been their custom in former years to linger over their beers and reminisce with old party comrades about the early putsch.

Single, married, divorced, he makes no bones about it, even reminisces, and the point always is how different I am.

Under the influence of champagne, Svidrigailov reminisces about his criminally libertine past, and the morally fastidious Raskolnikov cannot help being shocked.

But she endlessly reminisced, reliving her time with him, displaying a memory like a film library.

They drank their best wine at dinner, and fell into reminiscing about old times about their many separations and reunions, retracing the years until they were back to the night when Pug proposed.

Janice sat up talking with Byron long after Aster left, about the patrol, and then about Warren, reminiscing affectionately as they had never done before.

In this way, as he is reminiscing at supper one evening about his days with the early Jewish partisans outside Minsk, he learns that his own son is alive!

As a crowd gathered outside the Adams house, numbers of the family filled the room where the two old heroes sat reminiscing, Adams hugely enjoying the occasion.

Roussaye frowned over the notes he had made after visiting a dozen clubs and cafes where Bonapartist officers gathered to drink and gamble and reminisce about the glorious days of the empire.

He moved toLa Pazand spent his days reminiscing and watching the world go by at the Cafe La Paz, just a couple of blocks away from theUSembassy.

The Oblomovka meals that Oblomov reminisces about in dream visions of his childhood past convey a precapitalist kinship model and a connection with folk mythology that have at their center a sense of nurturing, harmony, and communion, all of which the hero, as an adult, finds woefully lacking in the bustling St.

Dad reverts for a while to his prostatectomy, then reminisces about his bricklaying days.