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# remnant

«remnant» in Mova's school dictionary: **left after the rest has gone or been used: the remnants…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a remnant, remnants)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small part of something that is left after the rest has gone or been used: the remnants of the meal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#m1)

2) A piece of cloth left over from a roll, often sold cheaply. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#m2)

3) A small surviving part of something old: remnants of a Roman wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and science lessons: remnants of old cities, remnants of a forest, remnants of a storm. In maths, a remnant is like a remainder: a 10 m roll of fabric cut into 3 m pieces leaves a 1 m remnant. In everyday life shops sell carpet and fabric remnants. Phrases: «the remnants of», «fabric remnant», «a remnant of the past».

### examples

- Only remnants of the castle wall are left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x1)
- We ate the remnants of the birthday cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x2)
- Mum made a cushion from a fabric remnant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x3)
- Cutting 4 m pieces from a 14 m roll leaves a 2 m remnant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x4)
- The remnants of the storm brought rain to the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x5)
- Small remnants of the old forest still grow by the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x6)
- But Vasilissa set the remnants of the hag's supper before her doll, burst into tears, and said:-- [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/#x7)

### note

Countable: remnants (often plural). Similar: remains, leftovers, remainder (maths). In division by length, the remnant is the remainder.

### In the corpora

- [And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for a great deliverance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1481/)
- [And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.886/)
- [and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.293/)
- [Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people; the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.133/)
- [And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.852/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remnant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remnant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.