Word.ws English Dictionary

remise

/ɹɪˈmʌɪz/US/ɹɪˈmaɪz/

remise verb: to send or give back.

Verb

remise (third-person singular simple present remises, present participle remising, simple past and past participle remised)

  1. (formal, transitive) To send or give back.
  2. (transitive) To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.

Noun (1)

remise (plural remises)

  1. (obsolete) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.

Noun (2)

remise (plural remises)

  1. (historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
    • long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]
    • [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […].1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
  2. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
    • [H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  3. A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
  4. The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

remise meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

remise in Urdu

گاڑی خانہ, ہتھیار ڈالنا

remise in Bengali

স্বত্বত্যাগ করা, কোনো দাবি

remise in Kannada

ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡು, ಒಪ್ಪಿಸು, ವಹಿಸಿಕೊಡು

Forms of remise

Verb
third-person singular presentremises
present participleremising
past participleremised
pastremised
Noun
pluralremises

Origin of remise

From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).

From French remise.

Questions about remise

What does remise mean?
Remise means to send or give back.
What is remise in Urdu?
Remise in Urdu is گاڑی خانہ, ہتھیار ڈالنا. See Remise meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is remise?
Remise can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce remise?
Remise is pronounced /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of remise?
The past tense of remise is remised.

Words near remise in the dictionary

  1. remirror
  2. remirrored
  3. remirroring
  4. remirrors
  5. remis
  6. remise
  7. remised
  8. remises
  9. remiseth
  10. remisier
  11. remisiers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: remise (page history and authors); remise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); remise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); remise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-remise.wav.

Cite this entry: “remise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/remise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.