Remainsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
• 韻: -eɪnz
• ハイフネーション: re‧mains

名詞

remains pl (plural only)

1. The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

   They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.

   The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.

2. Historical or archaeological relics.
3. The extant writings of a deceased person.

   To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.

4. All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.

   He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]   A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

派生語

• cremains
• mortal remains

名詞

remains

1. (rare) plural of remain

動詞

remains

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of remain

   We'll go ahead, while she remains here.

アナグラム

• Minears, Merinas, Marines, marines, Erisman, Amreins, sirname, Amrines, Mainers, Riemans, Reimans, seminar, maresin, mainers, Reisman, Mariens