recollection

Definition of recollection in English English dictionary: The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance
Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.; The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control
From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.; That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence
One of his earliest recollections. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.; The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance; {n} a recovery of notion, memory; That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. One of his earliest recollections." Macaulay; If you have a recollection of something, you remember it. Pat has vivid recollections of the trip He had no recollection of the crash = memory; the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode"; The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection; {i} memory, remembrance; That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence; something recalled to the mind; The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic]; the ability to recall past occurrences; remembrance
recollect: To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events
recollect: to recall the knowledge of
recollect: {v} to recover in the memory, to bethink, call to mind, gather again
recollect: To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember
recollect: If you recollect something, you remember it. Ramona spoke with warmth when she recollected the doctor who used to be at the county hospital His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted. = remember. to be able to remember something
recollect: A friar of the Strict Observance, an order of Franciscans
recollect: Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle
recollect: To recall; to collect ones thoughts again, especially about past events
recollect: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
recollect: {f} remember, bring back into memory, recall
recollect: To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops
recollections: plural of recollection

recollection

Hyphenation

rec·ol·lec·tion

Turkish pronunciation

rekılekşın

Synonyms

reminiscence, remembrance, memory

Pronunciation

/ˌrekəˈleksʜən/ /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃən/

Etymology

() Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“literally: to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere 'to gather'

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