re|main

re|main: re|main «rih MAYN», verb, noun.

–v.i.

1. to continue in a place; stay: »We shall remain at the seashore till September.
SYNONYM(S): See syn. under stay. (Cf. ↑stay)

2. to continue; keep on; last: »The town remains the same year after year.

3. to be left: »A few apples remain on the trees. If you take 2 from 5, 3 remains.

–n. remains, a) what is left: »The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.
b) a dead body: »Washington's remains are buried at Mount Vernon.
c) a wreckage: »Remains of the DC-8F that crashed on Nov. 29 [were] reassembled in Montreal (Canada Month).
d) a writer's works not yet published at the time of his death: »He left behind him many valuable remains, which Bion Proconnesius is said to have translated (Jacob Bryant).
e) things left from the past, such as a building, a monument, or parts of an animal or plant: »the remains of an ancient civilization.

╂[< Old French remaindre < Latin remanēre < re- back + manēre to stay]

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