remain
/ɹɪˈmeɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
verb
To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
Example Sentences
- "After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained."
- "I like to make more than enough food if I have people round for dinner, so I can eat my way through what remains in the following days."
- "Gather up the fragments that remain."
- "SEM of the apopyles with apopylar cells and choanocyte chamber remaining on the wound surface."
- "If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain."
- "Promise me you will always remain my good little girl."
Etymology
From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”). Displaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain”) (from Old English belīfan (“to remain, stay”)) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind”), with which it merged. More at beleave and belive.
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Inflected Forms
remains (plural)
remains (present, singular)
remaining (participle, present)
remained (participle, past)
remained (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
remained (first person, past)
remainest (archaic, present)
remained (past, second person)
remainedst (archaic, past)
remaineth (archaic, present)