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recollection

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"Memory"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/Part of speech nounSorted cceeillnoortStarts with REnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
  • One of his earliest recollections.
  • Now, at almost 90, he is hale and hearty, full of recollections, and retains a keen interest in life—a truly remarkable character and a great gentleman of the footplate.

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