All 12 Uses of
recollect
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- Recollect thet Sunday, Miss Mattie Lou?†
recollect = remember
- You recollect thet day, Miss Mattie Lou?†
- There wasn't a grown person in Cold Sassy who couldn't pass away the time after Sunday dinner by recollecting who'd died of what when, but Granny was the only one I ever heard be interesting about it.†
recollecting = remembering
- Y'all recollect them Sampleses?†
recollect = remember
- Preening like a rooster, he kept saying things like "I do recollect seein' thet feller somewheres before.†
- Y'all, I jest recollected a letter I got from Cudn Jake, not long fore Miss Mattie Lou died.†
recollected = remembered
- I don't recollect.†
recollect = remember
- I don't recollect the exact date, but I don't want yore mama stayin' by herself whilst he's gone.†
- "Funny, I don't recollect him ever bein' little bitty," said Lee Roy.†
- They'd recollect that all Miss Mattie Lou ever had to ride in was a buggy pulled by a mule — unless you counted Mr. Birdsong's glass-sided hearse pulled by fine black horses that she'd rode to the cemetery in.†
- He ain't a real big boy, as I recollect.†
- Please recollect the funeral I gave Miss Mattie Lou.
*recollect = remember -- especially experiences from long ago
Definition:
to remember -- especially experiences from long ago
Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.
Relative to its synonyms, recollect brings to mind a leisurely piecing together of distant memories. It may be used in a less formal manner than remember and is almost always less formal than recall.