Dictionary Definition
remain
Verb
1 stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The
dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest
assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The
bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, rest] [ant: change]
2 continue in a place, position, or situation;
"After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student
adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he
remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for
another year" [syn: stay,
stay on,
continue]
3 be left; of persons, questions, problems,
results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled
the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history
under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"
4 stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room";
"The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, stay]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɹɪˈmeɪn/
- Rhymes: -eɪn
- Hyphenation: re·main
Noun
Translations
State of remaining; stay
- Kurdish:
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly
in the plural
The posthumous works or productions, especially
literary works of one who is dead
- ttbc French: reste
- ttbc German: Überrest (2), Überreste (3) sterbliche Überreste (3)
- ttbc Swedish: kvarblivande (1), kvarbliva (2), kvarlevor (3), kvarlåtenskap (4)
Verb
- 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.
- To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
- To await; to be left to.
Translations
to stay behind while others withdraw
to continue unchanged
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 逗留 (dòuliú)
- Dutch: blijven
- Finnish: jäädä
- French: demeurer, rester
- German: bleiben
- Hungarian: maradni
- Italian: rimanere
- Japanese: 残る (のこる, nokoru)
- Korean: 머무르다 (meomureuda)
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: permanecer
- Russian: оставаться (ostavát’s’a)
- Slovene: obstati
- Spanish: permanecer
- Swedish: återstå, stanna kvar, kvarstå
To await; to be left to
- Kurdish:
- ttbc Albanian: mbetur, tepruar, ngelur
- ttbc French: rester
- ttbc German: zurückbleiben (1), übrigbleiben (1)
- ttbc Portuguese: restar (1)
- Spanish: restar, sobrar
- ttbc Swedish: stanna kvar (1, 2), kvarlämnas (1)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abide,
balance, be found, be
left, be located, be met with, be present, be situated, be still,
be there, berth, bide, body, bunk, cadaver, carcass, carry on, cease not,
coast, cohabit, continue, continue to be,
corpse, debris, defeat time, defy time,
detritus, domicile, domiciliate, doss down, drag
on, dwell, dwell in,
endure, exist, extend, fragments, freeze, go along, go on, hang
out, hold, hold on, hold
out, hold steady, indwell, inhabit, inhere, jog on, keep, keep going, keep on, keep
quiet, last, last long,
last out, leavings,
leftovers, lie, lie still, linger, live, live on, live through,
lodge, maintain, mark time, nest, never cease, not breathe, not
stir, occupy, occur, oddments, odds and ends,
perch, perdure, perennate, persevere, persist, prevail, remain motionless,
remainder, remains, repose, reside, residue, rest, room, roost, run, run on, scraps, slog on, squat, stagger on, stand, stand fast, stand firm,
stand still, stay, stay on,
stay put, stick, stick
around, stick fast, subsist, survive, sustain, tarry, tenant, tide over, traces, tread water, vestiges, wait, wear, wear
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