Definition of Remain

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Remain

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

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

To await; to be left to.

State of remaining; stay.

That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.

That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

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Remain Quotations

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Remain Translations

remain in Afrikaans is bly
remain in Danish is blive, forblive
remain in Dutch is achterblijven, nablijven
remain in French is restons, rester, restent, restez
remain in Italian is rimanere
remain in Latin is commoror
remain in Spanish is quedarse, permanecer

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