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re·mains

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. remainsnoun

    any object that is left unused or still extant

    "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

  2. cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remainsnoun

    the dead body of a human being

    "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Wiktionary

  1. remainsnoun

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

  2. remainsnoun

    A relic of an ancient building or other structure.

  3. remainsnoun

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

    He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.

ChatGPT

  1. remains

    Remains refer to the leftover or preserved parts, fragments, or traces of something or someone that has been left behind or has not been completely destroyed. They can include physical remains, such as a person's body, bones, or artifacts, or non-physical remains, such as memories or feelings associated with a past event or person.

Wikidata

  1. Remains

    Remains is the sixth album by the band Annihilator. It was released in 1997. All instruments were performed by Jeff Waters following the dissolution of the previous line-up. However, John Bates and Dave Steele make an appearance on "No Love" on guitars and vocals respectively, with Steele also appearing on "Wind". The album features a more industrial-oriented sound and also features a drum machine.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'remains' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1336

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'remains' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3838

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'remains' in Nouns Frequency: #2359

Anagrams for remains »

  1. Mainers

  2. marines

  3. Marines

  4. seminar

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of remains in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of remains in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of remains in a Sentence

  1. Jacob Mitchell:

    The key question for 2018 remains to what extent can the benign environment persist?

  2. Alexei Sorokin:

    It's good that our team remains in the competition, there is a lot of interest.

  3. Michael Pearson:

    I'm glad to say that I'm on the road to recovery and although the timing of my return remains uncertain, I look forward to being back at work when able.

  4. Borut Hocevar:

    It would be a great surprise if Cerar accepts the resignation of Erjavec although it remains unclear why Erjavec offered to resign at this moment.

  5. Heidi Griesmer:

    Our priority remains to get immediate relief to affected homes, get this fixed and make sure this doesn't happen again.

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