Definitions for remains

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remains re·main

Spelling: [ri-meyn]

IPA: /rɪˈmeɪn/

Remains is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 341 anagrams from letters in remains (aeimnrs).

Definitions for remains

noun

1. Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
2. remains. miscellaneous, fragmentary, or other writings still unpublished at the time of an author's death. traces of some quality, condition, etc. a dead body; corpse. parts or substances remaining from animal or plant life that occur in the earth's crust or strata:

verb (used without object)

1. to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified:
2. to stay behind or in the same place:
3. to be left after the removal, loss, destruction, etc., of all else:
4. to be left to be done, told, shown, etc.:
5. to be reserved or in store.

Origin of remains

1375-1425; late Middle English remainen Anglo-French remain-, stressed stem of Middle French remanoir Latin remanēre, equivalent to re- re- + manēre to stay; see

Examples for remains

"I have heard that she remains at the house where Phidias died," rejoined Plato.

So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

It only remains for me now to say a word or two about the end of his life.

But how much they have regained or how durable their hold is remains unclear.

I don't believe he likes Infant-ry, for he remains onmarried.

With the exception of Fountains, the remains are more perfect than any in Yorkshire.

But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.

There only remains to examine the opinions of those who differ from me.

Senhor José remains stationary, but this lengthy series of clauses propels the reader along an unmarked path.