reminder

/riˈmaɪndər/

/rɪˈmaɪndə/

Other forms: reminders

A reminder helps you remember something. If you write "don't forget lunch" on your arm every morning, it means you need a reminder to grab your brown paper bag on your way out the door.

A reminder helps you remember, whether it's an appointment, an acquaintance's name, or a grocery list. You can give yourself a reminder, or write one to another person who's prone to forgetting details. The word's been around since the 1650s, and it came from remind, which originally meant "to remember." Later, remind came to mean "to make someone remember," or "to put someone in mind of something."

Definitions of reminder

1. noun

   a message that helps you remember something
   “he ignored his wife's reminders”

   types:

   phylactery, tefillin

   (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer

   type of:

   content, message, subject matter, substance

   what a communication that is about something is about
2. noun

   an experience that causes you to remember something
   types:

   deja vu

   the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before

   memento, souvenir

   a reminder of past events

   memento mori

   a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality

   shades of

   something that reminds you of someone or something

   type of:

   experience

   the content of direct observation or participation in an event
3. noun

   someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
   synonyms: admonisher, monitor

   type of:

   defender, guardian, protector, shielder

   a person who cares for persons or property