remnant

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
1 [usually pl.] a part of sth that is left after the other parts have been used, removed, destroyed, etc: 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.
2 a small piece of fabric that is left when the rest has been sold

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 scrap, shred, fragment, end, bit, piece, trace, vestige, relic:

A silver button was the only remnant of the splendid uniform.

2 leftover, remainder, residue, rest, remains, part:

The surviving remnant of the battalion made its way across the desert to Djibouti.

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

small | last, surviving

The museum is one of the last remnants of the 17th-century palace.

| faint, tattered

the tattered remnants of the flag (figurative) faint remnants of the city's glorious past

PREP.

~ from

(figurative) Their outdated attitudes are a remnant from colonial days.

PHRASES

a remnant from/of the past

Concise English dictionary

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remnants'remnənt
noun
+a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists
+a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold