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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishremainen, fromOld Frenchremain-, stressed stem ofremanoir, fromLatinremaneō,maneō, fromProto-Indo-European*men-(to stay).

Displaced nativeMiddle Englishbeliven,bliven(to remain) (fromOld Englishbelīfan(to remain, stay)) due to confluence with relatedMiddle Englishbeleven(to leave behind), with which it merged. More atbeleave andbelive.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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remain (pluralremains)

  1. (chiefly in theplural) That which isleft;relic;remainder.
  2. (in theplural) That which is left of ahuman being after thelife is gone; relics; a dead body.
  3. Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
  4. (obsolete) State of remaining;stay.

Translations

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that which is left; relic; remainder
that which is left of a being after its life is goneseeremains
the posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead
state of remaining; stay
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Verb

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remain (third-person singular simple presentremains,present participleremaining,simple past and past participleremained)

  1. To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.
    After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidatesremained.
    I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through whatremains in the following days.
  2. (mathematics) To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
    If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and tworemain.
  3. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
    Promise me you will alwaysremain my good little girl.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [],→OCLC,Genesis38:11:
      Remain a widow at thy father's house.
    • 1689 December (indicated as1690), [John Locke],Two Treatises of Government: [], London: [] Awnsham Churchill, [],→OCLC:
      , Book I
      That [] remains to be proved.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter V, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced toremain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
    • 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, inRailway Magazine, page217:
      But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts haveremained unaltered.
    • 2013 June 28,Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 3, page21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change butremains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  4. Toawait; to be left to.
  5. (copulative) To continue in a state of being.
    There was no food in the house, so I had toremain hungry.
    The lightremained red for two full minutes.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofremain
infinitive(to)remain
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularremainremained
2nd-personsingularremain,remainestremained,remainedst
3rd-personsingularremains,remainethremained
pluralremain
subjunctiveremainremained
imperativeremain
participlesremainingremained

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Translations

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to stay behind while others withdraw
to be left over after a portion is removed
to continue unchanged
to await; to be left to
to continue in a state of beingsee alsocontinue
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