remains meaning

EN[ɹɪˈmeɪnz] [-eɪnz]
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Definition of remains in English Dictionary

• NounBFremainPREré-+-
  1. What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
     1. They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery. ‎
     2. The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
  2. Historical or archaeological relics.
  3. The extant writings of a deceased person.
     1. To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness. ‎
  4. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
     1. Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
  5. (rare) plural of remain.
• VerbBFremainPRremainingPT, PPremained
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of remain.
     1. We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • This population of cells continues to codistribute closely with venous elements and remains excluded from a vascular regions in the developing wing bud.
     • Hence, an adaptation of the context similarity-based selection method to multiclassification problems remains an interesting future task.
     • When it comes to reducing nuclear emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he walks the walk.
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.
     • These latest modifications are mere window dressing, the same problems remain.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Nouns
     • Noun forms
       • Noun plural forms
     • Pluralia tantum
  2. Verbs
     • Verb forms
       • Verb singular forms
         • Third-person singular forms

Other Vocabulary

1. en remain
2. en retains
3. en remans
4. en demains
5. fr romains