vestige
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.
a surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc.: These superstitions are vestiges of an ancient religion.
a very slight trace or amount of something: Not a vestige remains of the former elegance of the house.
Biology. a degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function.
Archaic. a footprint; track.
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How to use vestige in a sentence
And every other species—and there are millions of them—also carry vestiges of its life history.
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What happens when country music royalty hangs out with the last vestiges of American royalty?
Revolution will be finished only when all vestiges of the Gaddafi regime and anyone associated with it have gone.
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I please myself figuring young Friedrich looking at the vestiges of Marlborough, even in a preoccupied uncertain manner.
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) | Thomas CarlyleThe table land of Puebla exhibits remarkable vestiges of ancient civilization.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftVestiges of the natural history of creation, review of, 448.
The vestiges of barbarism characterize the African, in his normal state.
The Right of American Slavery | True Worthy HoitIt is widely assumed that even in the human species there remain vestiges of such a periodicity in the sexual impulse.
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British Dictionary definitions for vestige
/ (ˈvɛstɪdʒ) /
a small trace, mark, or amount; hint: a vestige of truth; no vestige of the meal
biology an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor
Origin of vestige
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