remeant

English

Etymology

From Latin remeāns, present participle of remeō (“to go or come back”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈmiːənt/

Adjective

remeant (not comparable)

(poetic) Coming back; returning.
- 1848, Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy:
  Like the remeant sun.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remeant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

remanet

Latin

Verb

remeant

third-person plural present active indicative of remeō

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