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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Kenneth Clark

Meaning of "vestige" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VESTIGE

Via French from Latin vestīgium track.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VESTIGE

vestige  [ˈvɛstɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VESTIGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vestige is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VESTIGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

vestige

Vestigiality

Vestigiality refers to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of their ancestral function in a given species, but have been retained through evolution. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species. The emergence of vestigiality occurs by normal evolutionary processes, typically by loss of function of a feature that is no longer subject to positive selection pressures when it loses its value in a changing environment. More urgently the feature may be selected against when its function becomes definitely harmful. Typical examples of both types occur in the loss of flying capability in island-dwelling species.

Definition of vestige in the English dictionary

The definition of vestige in the dictionary is a small trace, mark, or amount; hint. Other definition of vestige is an organ or part of an organism that is a small nonfunctioning remnant of a functional organ in an ancestor.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VESTIGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
cottage
ˈkɒtɪdʒ
disadvantage
ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
footage
ˈfʊtɪdʒ
forestage
ˈfɒrɪstɪdʒ
frontage
ˈfrʌntɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
high-voltage
ˈhaɪˌvəʊltɪdʒ
hostage
ˈhɒstɪdʒ
lastage
ˈlɑːstɪdʒ
outage
ˈaʊtɪdʒ
percentage
pəˈsɛntɪdʒ
portage
ˈpɔːtɪdʒ
postage
ˈpəʊstɪdʒ
reportage
rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ
shortage
ˈʃɔːtɪdʒ
vantage
ˈvɑːntɪdʒ
vintage
ˈvɪntɪdʒ
voltage
ˈvəʊltɪdʒ
wastage
ˈweɪstɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VESTIGE

vested
vested interest
vestee
vestiaries
vestiary
vestibular
vestibular system
vestibule
vestibulitis
vestibulocochlear nerve
vestibulum
vestigial
vestigially
vestigium
vestimental
vestimentary
vesting
vestiture
vestless
vestlike

WORDS THAT END LIKE VESTIGE

Adige
beige
dirige
disoblige
greige
Hiroshige
masstige
noblesse oblige
oblige
pfennige
prestige
Sverige
tige
Trentino-Alto Adige

Synonyms and antonyms of vestige in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VESTIGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «vestige» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of vestige

Translation of «vestige» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VESTIGE

Find out the translation of vestige to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vestige from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vestige» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

残留部分
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vestigio
570 millions of speakers

English

vestige
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निशान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بقايا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рудимент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vestígio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কণা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vestige
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketinggian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

痕跡
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자취
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vết củ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடிச்சுவடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Vestige
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vestigio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szczątek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рудимент
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vestigiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απομεινάρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorblyfsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spår
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vestige

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VESTIGE»

The term «vestige» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.729 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VESTIGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vestige

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4 QUOTES WITH «VESTIGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vestige.
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Kenneth Clark
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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Max Heindel
As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.
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Judy Holliday
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VESTIGE»

Discover the use of vestige in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vestige and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in ...
Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered ...
Gustaf Sobin, 2009
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Vestige
In the Midwestern suburb of LaGrange, something is amiss.
Deb Hanrahan, 2012
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Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc
Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each.
Gustaf Sobin, 1999
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VESTIGE: Chameleon's Genesis
Amelia's life is at the top of the famous chain as her father's creation "Chameleon" Became the most wanted procedure causing the eyes of every person injected with it to change colors with the mood they were in.
Lauren.A.Salinas, 2013
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Inside American Education
164 But the “vestige” argument is contradicted by the fact that the racial outbreaks on many campuses are both more numerous and more severe than anything witnessed in past decades on these same campuses, even though minority ...
Thomas Sowell, 2010
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Vestige
Josiah Halden's life is coming apart.
K. J. Pedersen, 2012
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, ...
And this loss is tactically vital to Nancy in terms of the estrangement of art's sens as “vestige.” As for art, it makes no sense (according to Nancy) to search for the lost origins of vestigium or vestigare, but only to put “one's steps into the traces of  ...
Peter Gratton , Marie-Eve Morin, 2012
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The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its ...
Ockham suggests an answer to this question when he takes up the traditional theme of creatures as vestiges of the Trinity and man as its very imaged A vestige and an image are alike, he says, because they are means by which we come to ...
Armand Maurer, 1999
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Rethinking the Trinity and Religious Pluralism: An ...
In sum, Cousins's appeal to the vestige tradition brings to light three problems with Panikkar's trinitarian grammar. First, Panikkar's pro- posal violates the basic grammar of the vestige tradition by reinterpreting the doctrine ofthe Trinity on the  ...
Keith E. Johnson, 2011
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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
The difference between Wenck and the Cusan can perhaps be most penetratingly comprehended in terms of their use of metaphors that derive from what one could characterize as the leading medieval system of metaphor: that of the 'vestige' ...
Hans Blumenberg, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VESTIGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vestige is used in the context of the following news items.
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Yiddish sign survives threat to last vestige of Jewish enclave on …
Yiddish sign survives threat to last vestige of Jewish enclave on Baldwin. Sign that once graced Mandel's Creamery may live on as building passes to a ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
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Last vestige of the Westside Bypass finally takes shape (photos)
But that's exactly what's getting underway in southern Tualatin as work gears up on the last vestige of the fabled but fated Westside Bypass. "I'm not trying to ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
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'The new vestige of racism': Republicans fight for Confederate flag at …
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Capitol could soon be making its last stand. The South Carolina House will begin ... «National Post, Jul 15»
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Not Having A State Minimum Wage Is Not A Vestige Of Slavery
Over in the New York Times we've got Teresa Tritch arguing that the absence of a state level minimum wage is a vestige of slavery. Which is really rather ... «Forbes, Jun 15»
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Vestavia Hills Rebel mascot a vestige of racism, a smear on the city
But she can't bring herself to yell Go Rebels, to stand and cheer for a school mascot that, as she puts it, "marginalizes 7-to-10 percent of the students.". «AL.com, Jun 15»
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Editorial: Vestige of slavery
It is vitally important to learn from the past, including its horrors. History shows how rare and precious freedom is, and how cruelly people can treat each other ... «The Providence Journal, Jun 15»
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Atlantic region bids farewell to last vestige of Progressive …
HALIFAX -- Peter MacKay's decision to leave politics represents a serious blow for the Harper government and a final, symbolic farewell to the last vestige of the ... «CTV News, May 15»
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200 THINGS THAT PLAY IN STARK COUNTY: A vestige of Freedom
200 THINGS THAT PLAY IN STARK COUNTY: A vestige of Freedom ... the corner of N. Park Avenue and Keystone Street is one of the few vestiges of Freedom. «Canton Repository, May 15»
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Heyl: Fans defend last vestige of Monroeville Mall's zombie epidemic
Traveling by Jeep, boat and foot, Tribune-Review investigative reporter Carl Prine and photojournalist Justin Merriman covered nearly 2,000 miles over two ... «Tribune-Review, May 15»
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Yes We Mystic 'Vestige' (EP stream)
That fearless creative energy bubbles to the surface on Vestige, which offers up two heaping helps of orchestral pop on "Wood Wheel" and "The Contest of ... «Exclaim!, Apr 15»

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