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