remnant
pronunciation
How to pronounce remnant in British English:
UK [ˈremnənt]
How to pronounce remnant in American English:
US [ˈremnənt]
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- Noun:
- a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
Word Origin
- remnant
- remnant: see remain
- remnant (n.)
- late 14c., contraction of remenant (c. 1300), from Old French remanant "rest, remainder, surplus," noun use of present participle of remanoir "to remain" (see remain (v.)). Specific sense of "end of a piece of drapery, cloth, etc." is recorded from early 15c. An Old English word for "remnant" was endlaf.
Example
- 1. All the crevices must be cleared of remnant food .
- 2. Rima hadley is an ancient rille and may be the remnant of a collapsed lava tube .
- 3. I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn
- 4. I think the english suffer from this more than other peoples a remnant of victorian prudishness .
- 5. We went out for a paddle up the coast headed toward scenery cove and baird glacier , at the northern edge of the stikine ice field , a remnant of the once vast ice sheets that covered much of north america in the pleistocene epoch .