vestige
11vestige — (vè sti j ) s. m. 1° Terme du style soutenu. Empreinte du pied d un homme ou d un animal, marquée dans l endroit où il a marché. • Dans cette sainte montagne [le monastère de Sainte Fare] où les épouses de Jésus Christ faisaient revivre la… …
12VESTIGE — n. m. Empreinte du pied d’un homme ou d’un animal, marquée dans l’endroit où il a marché; on l’emploie surtout dans le style soutenu. VESTIGE se dit, par extension, des Marques, des restes d’une chose détruite, disparue. Il y avait là autrefois… …
13vestige — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ final, last, remaining ▪ The government has to remove any last vestiges of corruption. ▪ The garden is the only vestige of the monastery. ▪ all …
14Vestige — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Vestige est un nom masculin employé surtout au pluriel. En architecture et en archéologie il désigne les restes d’un ancien édifice. Voir : ruines et …
15vestige — UK [ˈvestɪdʒ] / US noun Word forms vestige : singular vestige plural vestiges formal 1) [countable] a very small sign of something that has almost disappeared or stopped existing vestige of: vestiges of snow melting in the sun Their goal is to… …
16vestige — ves|tige [ˈvestıdʒ] n formal [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: Latin vestigium footprint, track ] 1.) a small part or amount of something that remains when most of it no longer exists = ↑trace vestige of ▪ The new law removed the last vestiges… …
17vestige — ves|tige [ vestıdʒ ] noun FORMAL 1. ) count vestige of a very small sign of something that has almost disappeared or stopped existing: vestiges of snow melting in the sun Their goal is to increase the pace of change, and wipe out the remaining… …
18vestige — n. 1 a trace or piece of evidence; a sign (vestiges of an earlier civilization; found no vestige of their presence). 2 a slight amount; a particle (without a vestige of clothing; showed not a vestige of decency). 3 Biol. a part or organ of an… …
19vestige — [17] Vestige comes via French vestige from Latin vestīgium ‘footprint, trace’, a word of uncertain origin. From it was derived vestīgāre ‘track, trace’, which has given English investigate. => INVESTIGATE …
20vestige — [[t]ve̱stɪʤ[/t]] vestiges N COUNT: usu N of n A vestige of something is a very small part that still remains of something that was once much larger or more important. [FORMAL] We represent the last vestige of what made this nation great hard work …
