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/rɪmˈeɪn/ /rimˈeɪn/ Listen

verb

Remain v. t. To await; to be left to. (Archaic) "The easier conquest now remains thee."

Remain v. i. (past & past part. remained; pres. part. remaining)

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. "Gather up the fragments that remain." "Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." "That... remains to be proved."

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. "Remain a widow at thy father's house." "Childless thou art; childless remain."

Synonyms: To continue; stay; wait; tarry; rest; sojourn; dwell; abide; last; endure.

noun

Remain n.

State of remaining; stay. (Obs.) "Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do."

That which is left; relic; remainder; chiefly in the plural. "The remains of old Rome." "When this remain of horror has entirely subsided."

Specif., in the plural:

(a)

That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. "Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains!"

(b)

The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.

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Etymology of 'Remain'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Remain" Quotes from Famous Books

... to-night looked particularly brilliant; there must have been a hundred and fifty people present, as the generals and the officers were asked to remain to dinner. I had one general next to me at table, the famous General Changarnier, who my other neighbor said had one foot in the grave and the other dans le plat. He was so old and thin and bony that if his ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... panic among American tourists in Paris; President Wilson directs State Department to ask Ambassador Herrick to remain at his post; many left in London as sailing of ...

— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various

... Bonaparte, twenty-six years after she had ceased to be Miss Elizabeth Patterson, could write "Do we not know how easily men and women free themselves from the fetters of love, and that only the stupid remain caught in these ...

— Hints for Lovers • Arnold Haultain

... three years thereafter, at most, I hope to come to receive her from you; and then, when she shall have made a return visit to Europe, it is quite possible that I may establish myself in my own country again. Should you wish it, I could arrange for the attendant remain with her; but I confess that I should prefer the contrary. I want to separate her for the time, so far as I can, from all the influences to which she has been subject here; and further than this, I have a strong faith in that self-dependence which seems to me to grow out of your ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... continued the corporal to a number of his men, who started down the path. "You four men remain here till we come back," he said to the men on the ground, and to two others on horseback. "Keep him here," jerking his thumb toward Willy, whose face was already ...

— Two Little Confederates • Thomas Nelson Page

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