remain

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   stay the same

   remain in a certain state

2. 2
   verb

   To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.

   After three rounds of interviews, only 5 candidates remained.

3. 3
   verb

   To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

   If you divide 20 apples between three people, each gets six and two remain.

4. 4
   verb

   To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

   Promise me you will always remain my good little girl.

5. 5
   verb

   To continue in a state of being.

   There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.

6. 6
   verb

   be left

7. 7
   verb

   continue in a place, position, or situation

8. 8
   verb

   stay behind

Etymology

From Middle English remainen, from Old French remain-, stressed stem of remanoir, from Latin remaneō, maneō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay”). Displaced native Middle English beliven, bliven (“to remain”) (from Old English belīfan (“to remain, stay”)) due to confluence with related Middle English beleven (“to leave behind”), with which it merged. More at beleave and belive.