Definitions for vestige

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vestige ves·tige

Spelling: [ves-tij]

IPA: /ˈvɛs tɪdʒ/

Vestige is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in vestige (eegistv).

Definitions for vestige

noun

1. a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence:
2. a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.:
3. a very slight trace or amount of something:
4. Biology. a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.
5. Archaic. a footprint; track.

Origin of vestige

1535-45; Middle French Latin vestīgium footprint

Examples for vestige

You could hardly find a vestige of the splendid railroad depots, warehouses, etc.

I could not recognize a single landmark, or discover the least vestige of a path.

Not a vestige of the chest remained but a few splintered pieces of iron.

The largest of an archipelago of islands, Santorini is the vestige of a single volcanic landmass that erupted around 1600 BC.

She explained that “filial laws” are a vestige of English rule.

There was not a vestige of hope for the vessel, such was the fury of the wind and the violence of the waves.

A deep, raspy voice seems the only vestige of the three decades he spent pounding his body with poisons.

There is not a vestige nor indication of carving or decoration of any sort or kind.

In all three categories, almost all anti-gay laws are a vestige of European colonialism, and date back approximately 150 years.

There was now no vestige of the smile on his round white face.