To continue in a place; stay; abide; dwell.
To continue without change as to some form, state, or quality specified: as, to remain active in business; to remain a widow.
To endure; continue; last.
To stay behind after others have gone; be left after a part, quantity, or number has been taken away or destroyed.
To be left as not included or comprised; be held in reserve; be still to be dealt with: formerly followed in some instances by a dative.
Synonyms To wait, tarry, rest, sojourn.
To keep.
noun.
The state of remaining; stay; abode.
noun.
That which is left to be done.
noun.
That which is left; remainder; relic: used chiefly in the plural.
noun.
Specifically plural That which is left of a human being after life is gone; a dead body; a corpse.
noun.
plural The productions, especially the literary works, of one who is dead; posthumous works: as, “Coleridge's Literary Remains.”
noun.
Synonyms Scraps, fragments.
noun.
3–5, See relic.