To remain is to stay in the same place or situation. You can remain at home instead of going out to the movies with your friends, but that doesn't mean you won't remain friends.
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.
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
Verb
stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or
undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
v. t.
To await; to be left to.
n.
State of remaining; stay.
n.
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the
plural.
n.
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone;
relics; a dead body.
n.
The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works,
of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
Remain
Gather up the fragments that remain.
Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
That . . . remains to be proved.2.
Remain a widow at thy father's house.
Childless thou art; childless remain.
Remain
The easier conquest now remains thee.
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 await; to be left to.
Usage Examples
Age merely shows what children we remain.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
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Other Usage ExamplesA dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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