Dictionary Entry
memory
memory is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
- 2noun
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
- 3noun
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
- 4noun
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
- 5noun
Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
- 6noun
A memorial.
- 7noun
an electronic memory device
"a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- 8noun
the power of retaining and recalling past experience
"he had a good memory when he was younger"
- 9noun
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
"he can do it from memory"
"he enjoyed remembering his father"
Synonyms
- 10noun
something that is remembered
"search as he would, the memory was lost"
- 11noun
the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
"he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
Synonyms
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for MEMORY lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.