(chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.
(in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.
State of remaining; stay.
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.
There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.
To await; to be left to.
To continue in a state of being.
The light remained red for two full minutes.
What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
Historical or archaeological relics.
The extant writings of a deceased person.
To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.