remain
//ɹɪˈmeɪn//
Forms
- Plural
- remains
- present (v1)
- remain
- past (v2)
- remained
- past participle (v3)
- remained
- present participle
- remaining
- 3rd person singular
- remains
Definitions
1.That which is left; relic; remainder.
2.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.
1.To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
- Gather up the fragments that remain.
- After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.
- SEM of the apopyles with apopylar cells and choanocyte chamber remaining on the wound surface.
2.To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
- If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
3.To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.
- But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages, of bridges and culverts, for example, the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
4.To await; to be left to.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #499
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”).