Definition of remain
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or
undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- v. t. - To await; to be left to.
- n. - State of remaining; stay.
- n. - That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the
plural.
- n. - That which is left of a human being after the life is gone;
relics; a dead body.
- n. - The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works,
of one who is dead; as, Cecil's