Remain Definition

rĭ-mān

remained, remains

verb

remained, remains

To be left or left over when the rest has been taken away, destroyed, or disposed of in some way.

Webster's New World

To stay while others go.

Webster's New World

To stay in the same place.

Remain in the house.

Webster's New World

To continue; go on being.

To remain a cynic.

Webster's New World

To be left after the removal, loss, passage, or destruction of others.

Only a few trees remained after the storm.

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noun

remains

State of remaining; stay.

Wiktionary

That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.

Wiktionary

(plural only) Remains: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

Wiktionary

The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.

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Origin of Remain

Replaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain") (from Old English belÄ«fan (“to remain, stay")) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind"), with which it merged. More at beleave.

From Wiktionary
Middle English remainen from Old French remanoir, remainer from Latin remanēre re- re- manēre to remain men-³ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay").

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