Definition of "remain"

remain

/ɹɪˈmeɪn/

noun
plural remains
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. (obsolete) State of remaining; stay.
verb
third-person singular simple present remains, present participle remaining, simple past and past participle remained
1. To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
  Quotations
  Gather up the fragments that remain.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 6:12
2. (mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
3. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  Quotations
  Remain a widow at thy father's house.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 38:11
  That […] remains to be proved.
  1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […]
  We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
  Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
4. To await; to be left to.
5. (copulative) To continue in a state of being.

Definition of "remain"

remain

noun

verb

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