overblijfsel — meaning in English
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English meaning
- relict noun A person or thing that remains after others have been lost.
- remainder noun Whatever is left over once part of something has been taken away or used up.
- remnant noun A small remaining piece or amount of something bigger that once existed.
- residual adj Left over after most of something has gone or been used up.
- vestige noun A footprint left in the ground.
Senses
overblijfsel is used for these senses in English:
- relict (formal) Something that, or someone who, survives or remains or is left over after the loss of others; a relic.
- remainder A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.
- remnant The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
- residual A remainder left over at the end of some process.
relict — full definition
- noun A person or thing that remains after others have been lost.
- noun (old-fashioned) A person whose husband or wife has died.
- noun A species, organism or ecosystem surviving from an earlier age, once common but now found in only a few places.
- noun A structure or feature that has lasted from an earlier time.
remainder — full definition
- noun Whatever is left over once part of something has been taken away or used up.
- noun In arithmetic, the number left over when one number doesn't divide evenly into another.
- noun Unsold copies of a book or other stock, later sold off cheaply.
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