remnant
noun/ˈremnənt/
/ˈremnənt/
- [usually plural] a part of something that is left after the other parts have been used, removed, destroyed, etc. synonym remains
- The woods are remnants of a huge forest which once covered the whole area.
- Many of the traditions are remnants of a time when most people worked on the land.
Extra Examples- The museum is one of the last remnants of the 17th-century palace.
- Their outdated attitudes are a remnant from colonial days.
- faint remnants of the city's glorious past
- the tattered remnants of the flag
- The institution is a remnant from the past.
- The remnants of the huge mirror lay shattered around the floor.
- They ousted the landowners, who were the last remnants of the Roman Empire.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- small
- last
- surviving
- …
- remnant from
- a remnant from the past
- a remnant of the past
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- a small piece of cloth that is left when the rest has been sold
Word OriginMiddle English: contraction of obsolete remenant from Old French remenant, from remenoir, remanoir ‘remain’.
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