The pursued remnant of soldiers decided it was high time for a show-down one way or another.
Source: tatoeba (278291)
Remnant
//ˈɹɛmnənt//
Synonyms for "remnant" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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Translations
75 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λείψανον noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- λεῖμμα noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Armenian
1 entries- մնացորդ noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Bulgarian
2 entries- оста́тък noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- оста́тък noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
Catalan
1 entries- romanalla noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Czech
1 entries- pozůstatek noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Danish
1 entries- rest noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Dutch
4 entries- coupon noun (unsold end of piece goods)
- overblijfsel noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- restant noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- restant noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
Finnish
4 entries- jätepala noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- jäämä noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- jäänne noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- jäännös noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
French
2 entries- reste noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- reste noun (unsold end of piece goods)
Galician
1 entries- retrinco noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
Georgian
1 entries- ნარჩენი noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
German
4 entries- Relikt noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- Rest noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- Restposten noun (unsold end of piece goods)
- Überbleibsel noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Greek
1 entries- ρετάλι noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
Hebrew
1 entries- זֵכֶר noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Hindi
1 entries- अवशेष noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Hungarian
1 entries- maradék noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Irish
2 entries- fuílleach noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- fuílleach noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
Italian
4 entries- avanzo noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- residuo noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- resto noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- rimanenza noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Latin
1 entries- reliqua noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Macedonian
3 entries- о́статок noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- о́статок noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- о́статок noun (unsold end of piece goods)
Māori
3 entries- mōrea noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- toenga noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- whakamakere noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- levning noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آرتق noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Polish
4 entries- nieużyty skrawek materiału noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- pozostałość noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- reszta noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- resztki noun (unsold end of piece goods)
Portuguese
3 entries- restante noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- resto noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- sobra noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Russian
4 entries- обре́зок noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- оста́ток noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- оста́ток noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- оста́ток noun (unsold end of piece goods)
Spanish
4 entries- caedura noun (remaining fabric at the end of the bolt)
- despojo noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
- partida restante noun (unsold end of piece goods)
- reliquia noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Swedish
1 entries- rest noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Ukrainian
1 entries- за́лишок noun (small portion remaining of a larger thing or group)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
A remnant of the old army is supporting and perhaps leading the current chaos.
Source: tatoeba (6116611)
Mars lost its global magnetic field billions of years ago and now just has remnant “fossil” magnetic fields embedded in certain regions of its surface.
Source: tatoeba (6551469)
Here with seven ships, the remnant of his band, / AEneas enters. Glad at length to greet / the welcome earth, the Trojans leap to land, / and lay their weary limbs still dripping on the sand.
Source: tatoeba (6784872)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.