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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A review, survey, or contemplation of things in the past.
  2. v. To contemplate the past.
  3. v. To refer back.
  4. v. To look back on or contemplate (things past).
  5. idiom. in retrospect Looking backward or reviewing the past.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To look back upon; consider retrospectively.
  2. n. The act of looking backward; contemplation or consideration of the past; hence, a review or survey of past events.
  3. n. Hence That to which one looks back; the past; a past event or consideration.

Wiktionary

  1. n. consideration of past times
  2. v. To look or refer back to; to reflect on

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
  2. n. A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember.
  2. n. contemplation of things past

Etymologies

  1. From Latin *retrōspectus, past participle of retrōspicere, to look back at : retrō-, retro- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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