remark

 
Pronunciation: /rɪˈmɑːk/

verb

  • 1 [reporting verb] say something as a comment; mention: [with direct speech]: ‘Tom’s looking peaky,’ she remarked [with clause]: he remarked that he had some work to finish [no object]: the judges remarked on the high standard of the entries
  • 2 [with object] regard with attention; notice: he remarked the man’s inflamed eyelids

noun

  • a written or spoken comment: I decided to ignore his rude remarks
  • [mass noun] notice or comment: the landscape, familiar since childhood, was not worthy of remark

Origin:

late 16th century (in remark (sense 2 of the verb)): from French remarquer 'note again', from re- (expressing intensive force) + marquer 'to mark, note'