Definitions for remain
rɪˈmeɪnre·main

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. stay, remain, rest(verb)

   stay the same; remain in a certain state

   "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"

2. stay, stay on, continue, remain(verb)

   continue in a place, position, or situation

   "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year"

3. remain(verb)

   be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.

   "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

4. persist, remain, stay(verb)

   stay behind

   "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"

Wiktionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. remain(Noun)

   State of remaining; stay.

2. remain(Noun)

   That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.

3. remain(Noun)

   remains: That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

4. remain(Noun)

   The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.

5. remain(Verb)

   To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

6. remain(Verb)

   To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

7. remain(Verb)

   To await; to be left to.

8. remain(Verb)

   To continue in a state of being.

   The light remained red for two full minutes.

Origin: remainen, from remain, stressed stem of remanoir, from remanere, maneo, from men-.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Remain(verb)

   to stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised

2. Remain(verb)

   to continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last

3. Remain(verb)

   to await; to be left to

4. Remain(noun)

   state of remaining; stay

5. Remain(noun)

   that which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural

6. Remain(noun)

   that which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body

7. Remain(noun)

   the posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Remain

   rē-mān′, v.i. to stay or be left behind: to continue in the same place: to be left after or out of a greater number: to continue in an unchanged form or condition: to last.—n. stay: abode: what is left, esp. in pl. Remains′, a corpse: the literary productions of one dead.—n. Remain′der, that which remains or is left behind after the removal of a part: the balance: an interest in an estate to come into effect after a certain other event happens: that which remains of an edition when the sale of a book has practically ceased.—adj. left over. [O. Fr. remaindre—L. remanēre—re-, back, manēre, to stay.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. remain

   The quantity of stores left on charge for survey, after a voyage.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'remain' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1101

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'remain' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2608

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'remain' in Verbs Frequency: #83

Anagrams for remain »

1. airmen, Mainer, marine, Marine

2. Airmen

3. Mainer

4. Marine

How to pronounce remain?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of remain in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of remain in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of remain in a Sentence

1. Sheikh Yahya:

   We want stability to remain.

2. Lisa Murkowski:

   He urged us to remain unified.

3. Reyder Sebastian:

   This will not remain unpunished.

4. John Kerry:

   Those discussions remain ongoing.

5. Interior Minister Barnard Cazeneuve:

   France was able to remain France.

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