noun
Meaning 1
That which is left; relic; remainder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
remain
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/ɹɪˈmeɪn/
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rhymes with -eɪn
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CMU ARPABET: R IH0 M EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 M EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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noun
Meaning 3
Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
State of remaining; stay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
Examples
- If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.
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verb
Meaning 7
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.
- , Book I That [...] remains to be proved.
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verb
Meaning 8
To await; to be left to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 9
To continue in a state of being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: copulative
Examples
- There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
- The light remained red for two full minutes.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
stay the same; remain in a certain state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it
- rest assured
- stay alone
- He remained unmoved by her tears
- The bad weather continued for another week
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stay, rest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
Narrower terms: keep out, sit tight, stick together, stay together, stand, keep, stay fresh, be
verb
Meaning 11
be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- There remains the question of who pulled the trigger
- Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
verb
Meaning 12
continue in a place, position, or situation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser
- Stay with me, please
- despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year
- She continued as deputy mayor for another year
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stay, stay on, continue
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
Narrower terms: bide, abide, stay, hold over
verb
Meaning 13
stay behind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The smell stayed in the room
- The hostility remained long after they made up
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: persist, stay
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: stick, linger
History
Etymology
From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”). Displaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain”) (from Old English belīfan (“to remain, stay”)) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind”), with which it merged. More at beleave and belive.
Across languages
Translations
258 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: mbetje — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Arabic: بَاقِي (bāqī) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Arabic: باقي (bāgi) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Bulgarian: оста́тък (ostátǎk) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Danish: rest — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Finnish: jäänne — that which is left; relic; remainder
- French: reste — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Georgian: ნარჩენი (narčeni) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Hebrew: זֵכֶר (zécher) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Hindi: अवशेष (avśeṣ) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Polish: pozostałości — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Portuguese: resto — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Portuguese: resquício — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Serbo-Croatian: ostatak — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Spanish: resto — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Spanish: restos — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Swedish: kvarvara — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Ukrainian: ре́шта (réšta) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Ukrainian: за́лишок (zályšok) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Ukrainian: оста́ча (ostáča) — that which is left; relic; remainder
- Finnish: oleskelu — state of remaining; stay
- Georgian: დარჩენა (darčena) — state of remaining; stay
- Central Kurdish: مانەوە (manewe) — state of remaining; stay
- Venetan: star — state of remaining; stay
- Afar: suge — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Albanian: rri — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Albanian: qëndroj — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Southern Altai: калар (kalar) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Arabic: بَقِيَ (baqiya) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Arabic: مَكَثَ (makaṯa) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Arabic: بِقي (bigi) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Armenian: մնալ (mnal) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bashkir: ҡалыу (qalıw) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Belarusian: застава́цца (zastavácca) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Belarusian: заста́цца (zastácca) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bengali: রওয়া (roōẇa) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bengali: থাকা (thaka) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bulgarian: оста́вам (ostávam) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bulgarian: оста́на (ostána) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Burmese: ကြွင်း (krwang:) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Burmese: ကျန် (kyan) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Catalan: quedar-se — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Catalan: restar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Cheyenne: -sétoo'e — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Chinese Mandarin: 留 (liú) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Chinese Mandarin: 留下 (liúxià) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Chinese Mandarin: 呆 (dāi) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Chinese Mandarin: 剩 (shèng) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Chinese Mandarin: 剩下 (shèngxia) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Czech: zůstat — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Czech: zbýt — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Danish: blive — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Danish: forblive — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Dutch: blijven — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Dutch: achterblijven — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Esperanto: resti — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Finnish: jäädä jäljelle — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Finnish: olla jäljellä — to stay behind while others withdraw
- French: rester — to stay behind while others withdraw
- North Frisian: bliwe — to stay behind while others withdraw
- North Frisian: bliiw — to stay behind while others withdraw
- North Frisian: bliiv — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Galician: quedar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Galician: ficar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- German: bleiben — to stay behind while others withdraw
- German: zurückbleiben — to stay behind while others withdraw
- German: übrigbleiben — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (bileiban) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Greek: παραμένω (paraméno) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ancient Greek: μένω (ménō) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Hebrew: נִשְׁאַר (nish'ár) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Hindi: रहना (rahnā) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Hungarian: ott marad — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Icelandic: dvelja — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ingrian: jäävvä — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Italian: stare — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Italian: restare — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Italian: rimanere — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Jamaican Creole: tan — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Japanese: 残る (nokoru) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Japanese: 居残る (inokoru) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Japanese: とどまる (todomaru) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Japanese: 留まる (tomaru) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Karakhanid: قَلْماقْ (qalmāq) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Khmer: ឋិត (thət) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Khmer: នៅនឹង (nɨwnɨng) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Korean: 머무르다 (meomureuda) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Lao: ຢູ່ (yū) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Latin: sto — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Latin: maneo — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Latin: teneo — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Latin: remaneo — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Macedonian: останува (ostanuva) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Macedonian: остане (ostane) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Māori: rarau — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Māori: toe — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Māori: whakanānā — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Norwegian Bokmål: forbli — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Occitan: remàner — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Occitan: restar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Old English: bīdan — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Oromo: hafuu — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Persian: بازماندن (bâzmândan) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Persian: ماندن (mândan) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Polish: pozostawać — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Polish: pozostać — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: ficar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: permanecer — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: sobrar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: restar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: remanescer — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Portuguese: sobejar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Romani: aćhel — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Romanian: rămâne — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Russian: остава́ться (ostavátʹsja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Russian: оста́ться (ostátʹsja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Saho: suge — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Sanskrit: गाधते (gādhate) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Sanskrit: तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Serbo-Croatian: о̀стати — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Serbo-Croatian: òstati — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Slovak: zostať — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Slovene: ostati — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Spanish: quedarse — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Spanish: sobrar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Swedish: bli kvar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Swedish: kvarbliva — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Swedish: stanna kvar — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Swedish: förbli — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Swedish: dvälja — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Thai: อยู่ (yùu) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Thai: คงอยู่ (kong-yùu) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Tocharian B: lip- — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Tocharian B: sāk- — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Turkish: kalmak — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Turkish: artakalmak — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ottoman Turkish: قالمق (qalmaq) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: залиша́тися (zalyšátysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: залиши́тися (zalyšýtysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: зостава́тися (zostavátysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: зоста́тися (zostátysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: лиша́тися (lyšátysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Ukrainian: лиши́тися (lyšýtysja) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Urdu: رہنا (rahnā) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Vietnamese: ở lại — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Yiddish: בלײַבן (blaybn) — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Zazaki: menden — to stay behind while others withdraw
- Bashkir: ҡалыу (qalıw) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Bulgarian: оста́вам (ostávam) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Chinese Mandarin: 剩餘 /剩余 (shèngyú) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Finnish: jäädä jäljelle — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Finnish: olla jäljellä — to be left over after a portion is removed
- French: rester — to be left over after a portion is removed
- German: übrigbleiben — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Hungarian: marad — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Japanese: 残る (nokoru) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Khmer: សល់ (sɑl) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Norwegian: gjenstå — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Norwegian Nynorsk: stå att — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Polish: zostawać — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Polish: zostać — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Portuguese: sobrar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Portuguese: restar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Quechua: puchuy — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Russian: остава́ться (ostavátʹsja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Russian: оста́ться (ostátʹsja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Spanish: sobrar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Spanish: restar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Spanish: quedar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Spanish: ficar — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Swedish: återstå — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Tocharian B: lip- — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Turkish: artakalmak — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ottoman Turkish: آرتمق (artmak) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: залиша́тися (zalyšátysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: залиши́тися (zalyšýtysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: зостава́тися (zostavátysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: зоста́тися (zostátysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: лиша́тися (lyšátysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Ukrainian: лиши́тися (lyšýtysja) — to be left over after a portion is removed
- Arabic: بَقِيَ (baqiya) — to continue unchanged
- Armenian: մնալ (mnal) — to continue unchanged
- Aromanian: armãn — to continue unchanged
- Cherokee: ᎡᏙᎮᏍᏗᏉᎠ (edohesdiquoa) — to continue unchanged
- Chinese Mandarin: 逗留 (dòuliú) — to continue unchanged
- Ngazidja Comorian: usalia — to continue unchanged
- Czech: zůstat — to continue unchanged
- Dutch: blijven — to continue unchanged
- Dutch: resteren — to continue unchanged
- Esperanto: resti — to continue unchanged
- Finnish: jäädä — to continue unchanged
- Finnish: pysyä — to continue unchanged
- Finnish: säilyä — to continue unchanged
- French: demeurer — to continue unchanged
- French: rester — to continue unchanged
- Galician: quedar — to continue unchanged
- German: bleiben — to continue unchanged
- Ancient Greek: μένω (ménō) — to continue unchanged
- Hindi: टिकना (ṭiknā) — to continue unchanged
- Hungarian: úgy marad — to continue unchanged
- Istro-Romanian: rămăre — to continue unchanged
- Italian: rimanere — to continue unchanged
- Japanese: 残る (nokoru) — to continue unchanged
- Khmer: នៅ (nɨw) — to continue unchanged
- Korean: 머무르다 (meomureuda) — to continue unchanged
- Central Kurdish: مایەوە (mayewe) — to continue unchanged
- Latin: sto — to continue unchanged
- Latin: maneo — to continue unchanged
- Latin: sedeo — to continue unchanged
- Māori: waiho — to continue unchanged
- Persian: پایداشتن (pâydštan) — to continue unchanged
- Persian: استوار بودن (ostovâr budan) — to continue unchanged
- Portuguese: permanecer — to continue unchanged
- Portuguese: continuar — to continue unchanged
- Romanian: rămâne — to continue unchanged
- Russian: остава́ться (ostavátʹsja) — to continue unchanged
- Russian: оста́ться (ostátʹsja) — to continue unchanged
- Sanskrit: तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati) — to continue unchanged
- Slovene: obstati — to continue unchanged
- Spanish: permanecer — to continue unchanged
- Spanish: remanir — to continue unchanged
- Swedish: återstå — to continue unchanged
- Swedish: stanna kvar — to continue unchanged
- Swedish: kvarstå — to continue unchanged
- Turkish: kalmak — to continue unchanged
- Turkish: korumak — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: залиша́тися (zalyšátysja) — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: залиши́тися (zalyšýtysja) — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: зостава́тися (zostavátysja) — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: зоста́тися (zostátysja) — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: лиша́тися (lyšátysja) — to continue unchanged
- Ukrainian: лиши́тися (lyšýtysja) — to continue unchanged
- Vietnamese: còn — to continue unchanged
- Yiddish: בלײַבן (blaybn) — to continue unchanged
- Esperanto: resti — to await; to be left to
- Central Kurdish: چاوەڕێ (çawerrê) — to await; to be left to
- Portuguese: esperar — to await; to be left to
- Swedish: kvarlämnas — to await; to be left to
- Ukrainian: очі́кувати (očíkuvaty) — to await; to be left to
- Finnish: pysyä — to continue in a state of being
- German: bleiben — to continue in a state of being
- Ancient Greek: μένω (ménō) — to continue in a state of being
- Polish: pozostawać — to continue in a state of being
- Polish: pozostać — to continue in a state of being
- Sanskrit: तिष्ठति (tíṣṭhati) — to continue in a state of being
- Spanish: permanecer — to continue in a state of being
- Spanish: remanir — to continue in a state of being
- Swedish: förbli — to continue in a state of being
- Swedish: förbliva — to continue in a state of being
- Swedish: fortsätta att vara — to continue in a state of being
- Turkish: sürdürmek — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: залиша́тися (zalyšátysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: залиши́тися (zalyšýtysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: зостава́тися (zostavátysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: зоста́тися (zostátysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: лиша́тися (lyšátysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Ukrainian: лиши́тися (lyšýtysja) — to continue in a state of being
- Yiddish: בלײַבן (blaybn) — to continue in a state of being
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