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remains

Syllables: re·mains/ɹɪˈmeɪnz/

remains noun: the body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse. Also the plural of remain.

Noun

remains pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
    • They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
    • The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Historical or archaeological relics.
  3. (plural, plural-only) The extant writings of a deceased person.
    • To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
  4. (plural, plural-only) All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
    • He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
    • Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a...1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Also used as

remains is also the plural of remain.

remains is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of remain.

remains meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

remains in Hindi

what is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse
अवशेष avśeṣ
relic of an ancient building or other structure
अवशेष avśeṣ, खंडहर khaṇḍhar
all that is left of the stock of some things; remnants
अवशेष avśeṣ

remains in Tamil

எஞ்சியுள்ளன, எஞ்சியிருக்கிறது

remains in Marathi

उरते, उरतो

remains in Bengali

অবশিষ্ট থাকে, রয়ে যায়
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remains in Telugu
మిగిలిపోతుంది
remains in Malayalam
അവശിഷ്ടങ്ങൾ
remains in Kannada
ಉಳಿದಿದೆ, ಉಳಿದುಕೊಂಡಿದೆ
remains in Punjabi
ਰਹਿ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ
remains in Tagalog
labi

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Questions about remains

What does remains mean?
Remains means the body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
What is remains in Hindi?
Remains in Hindi is अवशेष (avśeṣ), खंडहर (khaṇḍhar). See Remains meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is remains?
Remains is a noun.
How do you pronounce remains?
Remains is pronounced /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/.

Words near remains in the dictionary

  1. remaining
  2. remaining performance obligation
  3. remaining performance obligations
  4. remaining to be seen
  5. remainings
  6. remains
  7. remains to be seen
  8. Remak fiber
  9. Remak fibers
  10. remakable
  11. remake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: remains (page history and authors); remains (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); remains (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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