Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more.
- n. Biology A rudimentary or degenerate, usually nonfunctioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A footprint; a footstep; a track; a trace; hence, a mark, impression, or appearance of something which is no longer present or in existence; a sensible evidence or visible sign of something absent, lost, or perished; remains of something passed away.
- n. In biology, any vestigial organ or tissue, having little or no utility, but corresponding to a useful part existing in some lower animal. See vestigial and rudiment, 3. Synonyms See
trace .
Wiktionary
- n. The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign;
- n. A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
- n. a vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
- n. A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an indication that something has been present
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, from Latin vestīgium.
Examples
“From here, as from the Sassi Bianco, one sees its true form and its actual summit; while of the one no idea can be formed, and of the other no vestige is visible, from either the Tre Sassi or the Fedaja.”
“I think think the same goes for the word vestige ...”
“But these daggers, his only arms, were broken by the sword of Holagou, and not a vestige is left of the enemies of mankind, except the word assassin, which, in the most odious sense, has been adopted in the languages of Europe.”
“Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period.”
“Thus Intellectual-Principle is a vestige of the Supreme; but since the vestige is a Form going out into extension, into plurality, that Prior, as the source of Form, must be itself without shape and Form: if the Prior were”
“You can find traditional models or some very interesting solutions like the splendid "vestige" model shown in the picture on the right you can buy it at less than 300$...35% less than normal retail price!”
“The owner of the company that owns the mine, the International Coal Group, is holding out hope, any kind of vestige of hope that these 13 miners are still alive.”
“I wondered whether it was some kind of vestige of Catholic theology from their education system. or "some class of vestige of Catholic theology".”
“But a creature is called a vestige based on properties which point to God as triple cause “ efficient, formal, and final cause; for example, the properties: one, true, and good.” [”
“In what some of the harder-core GMail and Google Apps users might say is a step backwards, another "vestige" of the traditional approach to email that users will have to live with is the lack of email threading -- a part of the Gmail experience that Google calls "the conversation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vestige’.
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 256 more...
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of Montreal
Every time I finally decipher Kevin Barnes's song lyrics, I feel somewhat smarter.
These are strange/big/obscure words and phrases from the lyrics of the band 'of Montreal' (intentiona...southern hemisphe..., paradigm, Phaidon Press, permutation, List Christie, Gemini Tactics, eluardian, persecution complex, Himmlers, parabola, Mono Club, subconscious mass... and 132 more...
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Beautiful words
Self-explanatory.
plural, melancholy, mother, euphemism, plea, violin, chaos, chasm, soliloquy, air, listen, liopleurodon and 23 more...
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maf
sectarian, sectarian =narrow..., oppression, oppress, sort out, worldwide, legit, constrain, constrained, I feel constrained, constraint, divisive and 56 more...
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StaticMotion's list
Romantic and passionate words that allow me to say what I feel deep within my soul
rolig A word I want to remember when I have to translate the Slovene sled, as an alternative to trace, which has become overused in post-Derridean theoretical writings. Sep 6, 2010