vestige
21vestige — [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. Cf.⇒ INVESTIGATE …
22vestige — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin vestigium footstep, footprint, track, vestige Date: 15th century 1. a. (1) a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or …
23vestige — /ves tij/, n. 1. a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence: A few columns were the last vestiges of a Greek temple. 2. a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These… …
24vestige — See trace. See trace, vestige …
25vestige — noun (C) formal 1 a small part or amount of something that still remains when most of it no longer exists (+ of): The new law removed the last vestiges of royal power. 2 the smallest possible amount of a quality or feeling (+ of): There s not a… …
26vestige — noun 1) the last vestiges of colonialism Syn: remnant, fragment, relic, echo, indication, sign, trace, residue, mark, legacy, reminder; remains See note at trace 2) …
27vestige — ves•tige [[t]ˈvɛs tɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence 2) a very slight trace or amount of something: the last vestige of hope[/ex] 3) bio anat. a degenerate or imperfectly… …
28vestige — n. [L. vestigium, footprint] A degenerate or imperfect remaining ancestral organ …
29vestige — noun a) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra b) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;… …
30vestige — A trace or a rudimentary structure; the degenerated remains of any structure which occurs as an entity in the embryo or fetus. SYN: vestigium [TA]. [L. vestigium] v. of ductus deferens [TA] remnant in a female of the …
