Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who remembers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who remembers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who remembers, recalls from memory.
  • noun One who remembers several words and phrases from a moribund language, but never became fluent in it.

Etymologies

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Agent noun of remember +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • But because he's living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it's his job to be the "rememberer" - and write down everything that happens while they're growing up.

    Chasing Ray 2008

  •  I thought the rememberer in “Head” enjoys watching him from his ceiling — the man in the poem, who is stoned, yet atoned, in his 10th step, exactly where he started.

    Hoss Men (continued) 2010

  • She was thoughtful, intense, a listener, a watcher, a rememberer, trying to make sense of the world from her child's vantage point, three feet off the ground.

    Beard 2010

  • It always wants the rememberer to look good to themselves and others, so there's so nasty selectivity going on.

    Let Me Traumatize You With Bob Denver's Mouth Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • And of course it's full of the sort of verified descriptive facts that make such things awfully compelling (but with contradictions that one might argue point to exactly the sort of reconstruction job I'm hypothesising, where it's information being downloaded by the rememberer rather than a "soul" being passed on by the dead-and-gone).

    Magic 101 Hal Duncan 2006

  • Keep denying it chase, you may become a sleazy politician yet and a bush mis-rememberer yet.

    Think Progress » Preteen magazine makes military recruiting pitch. 2006

  • And of course it's full of the sort of verified descriptive facts that make such things awfully compelling (but with contradictions that one might argue point to exactly the sort of reconstruction job I'm hypothesising, where it's information being downloaded by the rememberer rather than a "soul" being passed on by the dead-and-gone).

    Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • If my rememberer is functional, several hundred gallons of diesel were pumped out of the hole.

    Underground Problems with Mann-Holes « Climate Audit 2006

  • I'm a rememberer, but I don't remember why I couldn't control my hand.

    Working with Media through Demonstration . . . . . . hypnosis is real, let the skeptics feel it 2005

  • I'm a rememberer, but I don't remember why I couldn't control my hand.

    Life of Brian: 2005

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