remnant
remnant
Definition
rem·nant (rem′nənt)
noun
- what is left over; remainder; residue
- a small remaining part, quantity, or number of persons or things
- a trace; last remaining indication of what has been a remnant of his former pride
- a piece of cloth, ribbon, etc. left over or unsold, as at the end of a bolt
Etymology: ME, contr. < remenant < OFr, orig. prp. of remaindre: see remain
adjective
remaining
remnant
Synonyms
remnant
n.
A remaining part
remains, residue, relic, trace; see remainder.The last of a bolt of goods
strip, scrap, piece, part, portion, surplus, shred, endpiece. See syn. study at remainder.remainder.
remnant
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- feudalism: This is a struggle not against the foundations of capitalism but for purging all the remnants of feudalism.
- supernova: The crab nebula is the remnant of a supernova that was observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054.
- civilization: Nothing can be further from the desire or intention of Leninism than the " preservation of the remnants of civilization.
- woodland: Two Mile Coppice contains the last remnant of ancient woodland in the Weymouth area.
- forest: In mid-afternoon, we descended to the lowlands, to bird some of the last remnant of undisturbed lowland forest in Taiwan.
- empire: The Inheritance marks the last remnants of a financial empire which dwindled away during her final years.
Converse of object
- tatter: At the one end of this small stage lay what seemed the tattered remnants of a man.
- survive: The two surviving remnants of the trunk are enclosed by a stone wall built in 1795 to deter souvenir hunters.
- scatter: Fragments Shattered shards Scattered remnants Cut me drew my blood.
Adjective modifier
- shattered: With the shattered remnants of the regiment, now broken up into groups, the wild charge continued.
- explosive: We need to deal with other explosive remnants of war.
- scattered: Instead, the elect were a people in covenant with God, a scattered remnant of the faithful, separated from the sinners.
- faithful: The churches will continue to empty, until there is just the faithful remnant, and most of them will be over forty-five!
- stellar: Planetary nebulae, supernovae, stellar remnants - white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes.
- pathetic: Those with living livestock hurried about tending the pathetic remnants of their herds with cloth over their noses to keep out the smell.
Modifies a noun
- limewash: Fabrics: ' A ' consists of medium to large shaley slate, some coursing; sparse remnant limewash.
- patch: Scanning from a nearby ridge shows other remnant patches of rainforest in the steep terrain.
- grassland: However all these sites contain small pockets of remnant chalk grassland.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near remnant
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