remains

Meaning of remains

noun
  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. State of remaining; stay.
verb
  1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
  2. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
    There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
  3. To await; to be left to.
  4. To continue in a state of being.
    The light remained red for two full minutes.
noun
  1. What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
    The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
  2. Historical or archaeological relics.
  3. The extant writings of a deceased person.
    To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
  4. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
    He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.

Information about remains

  • The singular form of remains is: remain.
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Hyphenation of remains

re-mains

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • remains is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

remains synonyms

Meaning cadaver:

cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay

Meaning :

await, bide, wait, rest, stay, endure, last, linger, tarry

Translation of remains

Anagrams of remains

Mainers, Marines, marines, Reisman, Riesman, seminar, sirname

Words that rhyme with remains

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