Definitions for remnant

remnant rem·nant

Spelling: [rem-nuh nt]
IPA: /ˈrɛm nənt/

Remnant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in remnant (aemnnrt).

Definitions for remnant

noun

  1. a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
  2. a fragment or scrap.
  3. a small, unsold or unused piece of cloth, lace, etc., as at the end of a bolt.
  4. a trace; vestige:

adjective

  1. remaining; leftover.

Origin of remnant

1300-50; Middle English remna(u)nt, contraction of remenant Old French, present participle of remenoir to remain

Examples for remnant

It was a remnant of an older era of country song and show, without irony or drama.

His arms are covered in tattoos, and he speaks with a bit of a lisp—a remnant, he says, of his California upbringing.

“A remnant of you worries the same way you did when they were teenagers,” she says.

I said, holding up his wrist where the remnant of the cord was hanging.

A frayed, foreshortened square of cloth is produced, a remnant of some great emotion.

In the forests the loggers were tearing and slashing into all but the remnant of the 96 timber.

My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.

We believe that, for many years, no remnant of it has existed in the United States.

All that is left of the Cheyenne Bundle is now with the remnant of the tribe in Oklahoma.

When day broke they succeeded in wearing the ship with a remnant of the spritsail.

Word Value for remnant
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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