memory
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
How often you will meet it
Rank 865 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,240 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
memory in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Moreover there is foresight as well as memory.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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Sail on, Three Bells, forever, In grateful memory sail!
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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But his specialty, his triumph, his glory, is a memory of faces, so prodigious as to exceed belief.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He named a number of people whom he called his friends, and whose names Mme. Favoral carefully stored away in her memory.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I am reluctant to lose that retrospect altogether, and this is a dim little memory of it, a document not to “serve.”
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1