Vestige Definition

vĕstĭj
vestiges
noun
vestiges
A trace, mark, or sign of something that once existed but has passed away or disappeared.
Vestiges of the ancient wall.
Webster's New World
A trace; bit.
Not a vestige of hope left.
Webster's New World
A degenerate, atrophied, or rudimentary organ or part, more fully developed or functional in an earlier stage of development of the individual or species.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
vestige
Plural:
vestiges

Origin of Vestige

  • From French, from Latin vestigium (“footstep, footprint, track, the sole of the foot, a trace, mark").

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French from Latin vestīgium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vestige Sentence Examples

  • They are said to have revealed no vestige of religion.

  • Transylvania lost every vestige of autonomy, and was fully and completely incorporated with Hungary.

  • If any vestige of Hellenism still survived under the Sassanian kings, our records do not show it.

  • On the 23rd the Austrians entered Naples, followed soon afterwards by the king; every vestige of freedom was suppressed, the reactionary Medici ministry appointed, and the inevitable state trials instituted with the usual harvest of executions and imprisonment.

  • In Drogheda itself there is now not a vestige of the palace, except the name "Palace Street."

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VVEVES

Words Ending With

EGEIGE

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