Meaning

• (chiefly in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

• (in the plural) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.

• Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works.

• State of remaining; stay.

Meaning

• 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.

  "There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry."

• To await; to be left to.

• To continue in a state of being.

  "The light remained red for two full minutes."

Meaning

• What is left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.

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

• Historical or archaeological relics.

• The extant writings of a deceased person.

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

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

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