VESTIGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vestige mean? 

• VESTIGE (noun)
  The noun VESTIGE has 1 sense:

1. an indication that something has been present

  Familiarity information: VESTIGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESTIGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indication that something has been present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

shadow; tincture; trace; vestige

Context example:

a tincture of condescension

Hypernyms ("vestige" is a kind of...):

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vestige"):

footprint (a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important)

 Context examples 

I have not yet seen the vestige of a clue.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I confine myself to throwing out the observation, that, at the hour and place I have indicated, may be found such ruined vestiges as yet

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The more a person’s genome carries genetic vestiges of Neanderthals, the more certain parts of his or her brain and skull resemble those of humans’ evolutionary cousins that went extinct 40,000 years ago.

(“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders, National Institutes of Health)

She had left Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of information could be gathered respecting her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As night advanced, I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As she came walking in, looking very tired but as composed as ever, she observed that every vestige of the unfortunate fete had disappeared, except a suspicious pucker about the corners of Jo's mouth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The door opened, and Agnes, gliding in, without a vestige of colour in her face, put her arm round his neck, and steadily said, “Papa, you are not well. Come with me!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were sitting at either end of the couch looking at each other as if some question had been asked or was in the air, and every vestige of embarrassment was gone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)