Remain

/ɹɪˈmeɪn/ · noun

Meaning

(chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.
2. (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
3. Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
4. (obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
5. To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
6. (mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
7. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
8. To await; to be left to.

Example Sentences

After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.

I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days.

Gather up the fragments that remain.

SEM of the apopyles with apopylar cells and choanocyte chamber remaining on the wound surface.

If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.

Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.

, Book I That […] remains to be proved.

Remain a widow at thy father's house.

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