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reminiscences

reminiscences is the plural of reminiscence.

Meaning of reminiscence

Noun

reminiscence (countable and uncountable, plural reminiscences)

  1. An act of remembering long-past experiences, especially positive or pleasant ones, often fondly.
    • Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. A mental image thus remembered.
    • Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones).2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024

Questions about reminiscences

What is reminiscences the plural of?
Reminiscences is the plural of reminiscence.

Words near reminiscences in the dictionary

  1. reminisced
  2. reminiscence
  3. reminiscenceful
  4. reminiscencer
  5. reminiscencers
  6. reminiscences
  7. reminiscencies
  8. reminiscency
  9. reminiscent
  10. reminiscential
  11. reminiscentially

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