{
    "term": "remains",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the parts of something that are left after the other parts have been used, eaten, removed, etc.",
            "sensetop": "remains (of something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She fed the remains of her lunch to the dog."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Environmentalists say that the road will destroy the remains of the world's first commercial railway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The body was found among the remains of a burned-out house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The burned-out remains date from the 19th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the mangled remains of the bomber's van"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the middle of the clearing were the charred remains of a small fire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["abundant", "considerable", "extensive"],
                "verb + remains": ["discover", "find", "locate"],
                "remains + verb": ["survive", "lie", "date from…"],
                "preposition": ["among the remains", "in the remains"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the parts of ancient objects and buildings that have survived and are discovered in the present day",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The museum has an impressive collection of prehistoric remains."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the remains of a Roman fort"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have found the remains of a Roman settlement on the land."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the extensive remains of a medieval abbey"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are excavating the remains of an Iron Age settlement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Considerable remains survive of the great city walls begun by Theodosius in AD 413."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["abundant", "considerable", "extensive"],
                "verb + remains": ["discover", "find", "locate"],
                "remains + verb": ["survive", "lie", "date from…"],
                "preposition": ["among the remains", "in the remains"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the body of a dead person or animal",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They had discovered **human remains**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gulls often feed on the remains of seal kills."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her remains lie at rest in St Andrew's churchyard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her remains lie in an unmarked grave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The remains have been identified as those of Carl Rider."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This tomb holds the mortal remains of a great pharaoh."
                },
                {
                    "text": "While excavating the site for a new hotel, workers unearthed the remains of several dinosaurs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "abundant remains of marine algae"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["abundant", "considerable", "extensive"],
                "verb + remains": ["discover", "find", "locate"],
                "remains + verb": ["survive", "lie", "date from…"],
                "preposition": ["among the remains", "in the remains"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈmeɪnz/",
                "audio": "re/remains/remains__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈmeɪnz/",
                "audio": "re/remains/remains__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (occasionally treated as singular): from Old French remain, from remaindre, from an informal form of Latin remanere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + manere ‘to stay’."
}