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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ves•tige /ˈvɛstɪdʒ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence:the last vestiges of a once great empire.
- a very slight trace or amount of something:the last vestige of hope.
ves•tig•i•al /vɛˈstɪdʒiəl, -ˈstɪdʒəl/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ves•tige (ves′tij),USA pronunciation n. - 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.
- Developmental Biology[Biol.]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.
- Latin vestīgium footprint
- Middle French
- 1535–45
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged token. See trace.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged hint, suggestion.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: vestige /ˈvɛstɪdʒ/ n - a small trace, mark, or amount; hint: a vestige of truth, no vestige of the meal
- an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor
Etymology: 17th Century: via French from Latin vestīgium track |