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Definition of Remains

1. Noun. Any object that is left unused or still extant. "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

2. Noun. The dead body of a human being. "Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Definition of Remains

1. Noun. What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse. ¹

2. Noun. A relic of an ancient building or other structure. ¹

3. Noun. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants. ¹

4. Noun. (rare) (plural of remain) ¹

5. Verb. (third-person singular of remain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Remains

1. remain [v] - See also: remain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remains

remainder-man remainder-men remainder trust remainder trusts remaindered remaindering remainderman remaindermen remainders remaine

remained remainest remaineth remaining remainings remains (current term) remake remaker remakers remakes

remaking reman remand remanded remanding remandment remandments remands remanence remanences

Literary usage of Remains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"HUMAN remains FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF FLORIDA IN a paper recently issued the writer has given an account of the occurrence at Vero on the Atlantic coast in ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Occasionally lignified remains such as those from certain localities in the ... Plant remains are often found in a good state of preservation in nodules of ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Alexander Pope (1760)
"... And of Night's empire but a third remains. jr. 295. Night rolls the hours away, ... But a third remains.] One ought to take notice with how much ..."

4. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"79), some account is given of the occurrence of fish remains near the ... The remains, which were very fragmentary, and were identified as scales of ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The present ruins consist of the remains of small temples dedicated by Ram- eses II to Ra; a Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the eponymous goddess Lucina by ..."

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