reminisce
UK/ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/
reminisce verb: to recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
Verb
reminisce (third-person singular simple present reminisces, present participle reminiscing, simple past and past participle reminisced)
- To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
- But in the blink of an eye, you kissed me goodbye
And I reminisced of a better time2022, Vane, “Six Feet Under”
- But in the blink of an eye, you kissed me goodbye
- To talk or write about memories of the past, especially pleasant memories.
- I strive to be live 'cause I got no choice / And run my own business like my Aunt Joyce / So Pete Rock hit me, nuff respect due / When they reminisce over you, listen1992, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”, in Mecca and the Soul Brother
- To remember fondly; to reminisce about.
- And now when life begins to get the best of me
I reminisce these childhood memories1994, Iris Dement, "Childhood Memories" (on the album My Life) - He reminisced the old Parvati who was now this Parvati.2006, Amitava Bhattacharya, Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, page 34
- And now when life begins to get the best of me
Noun
reminisce (plural reminisces)
- An act of reminiscence.
- I met up with Alastair McQueen [former Mirror colleague] and we had a reminisce.2017, Alastair Campbell, Diaries Volume 6: From Blair to Brown, 2005 – 2007
reminisce meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
reminisce in Hindi
- to recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically
- याद करना yād karnā
reminisce in Bengali
- to reminisce
- স্মৃতিচারণ করা smriticaron kora
reminisce in Malayalam
- cast one's mind back to, remember (with pleasure), look back on
- പഴയ കാര്യങ്ങൾ ഓർക്കുക, സ്മരണയിൽ മുഴുകുക, സന്തോഷത്തോടെ സ്മരിക്കുക, സുഖസ്മരണയിൽ അഭിരമിക്കുക, നഷ്ടബോധം തോന്നുക, ഓർമ്മിക്കുക
reminisce in Kannada
- ಸ್ಮರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಜ್ಞಾಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ನೆನಪು ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ನೆನೆ
Examples of reminisce in a sentence
- They reminisced over their move to the UK as idealistic Beida graduates, back in the 80s.
- Li recalled one prospective client who spent most of an hourlong phone call crying as she reminisced about her old home.
- Smokers aren’t surprised at the escalating price, reminiscing about recent months gone by when a loosie cost only 25 cents.
Forms of reminisce
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | reminisces |
| present participle | reminiscing |
| past participle | reminisced |
| past | reminisced |
| Noun | |
| plural | reminisces |
Origin of reminisce
Back-formation from reminiscence, from Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“to remember”).
Words formed from reminisce
Questions about reminisce
- What does reminisce mean?
- Reminisce means to recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
- What is reminisce in Hindi?
- Reminisce in Hindi is याद करना (yād karnā). See Reminisce meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is reminisce?
- Reminisce can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce reminisce?
- Reminisce is pronounced /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of reminisce?
- The past tense of reminisce is reminisced.
Words near reminisce in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reminisce (page history and authors); স্মৃতিচারণ করা (Bengali) (page history and authors); reminisce (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); reminisce (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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