REMNANT meaning: Remaining piece left after destruction

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word remnant:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

remnant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remnant: Merriam-Webster
remnant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
remnant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
remnant: Collins English Dictionary
remnant: Vocabulary.com
Remnant, remnant: Wordnik
remnant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
remnant: Wiktionary
remnant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
remnant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
remnant: Infoplease Dictionary
Remnant, remnant: Dictionary.com
remnant: Online Etymology Dictionary
remnant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Remnant (Adventist), Remnant (Bible), Remnant (Seventh-day Adventist belief), Remnant (band), Remnant (comics), Remnant (tropical cyclone), Remnant, The Remnant (LaHaye novel), The Remnant (album), The Remnant (newspaper), The Remnant (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Remnant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
remnant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
remnant: Rhymezone
remnant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
remnant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
remnant: FreeDictionary.org
remnant: Mnemonic Dictionary
remnant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Remnant: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)

remnant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

remnant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
▸ noun:  The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
▸ noun:  An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Still left; remaining.

Similar:

remainder, leftover, end, oddment, scrap, remanent, residuum, rump, rump state, ramuscule, more...

Opposite:

whole, entirety, complete, full

Types:

shard, fragment, scrap, scrapings, scraps, scrappy, scrapple, more...

Phrases:

supernova remnant, remnant radiation, nova remnant, ovarian remnant syndrome, remnant removal disease, more...

Adjectives:

last, smallest, only, faithful, miserable, least, gastric, poor, mere, sole, feeble

Colors:

rust, sepia, olive, charcoal, umber, more...