Vestige

Definition: Vestige

Vestige

Noun

1. A clue that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim".

Date "vestige" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Vestige

Synonyms: shadow (n), trace (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Record	Noun: trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix; footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vestige

English words defined with "vestige": To make one's mark. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vestige": Camels ♦ Maid of Athens. (references)

Etymologies containing "vestige": Vestigate. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vestige" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (relic, survival, vestige).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Vestige of Honor (1990)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Los Hermanos Penitentes a Vestige of Medievalism in Southwestern United States (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Volt; voltage; electricity; spark; atom; beam; fire; flare; flicker; gleam; glint; glitter; glow; hint; jot; nucleus; ray; scintilla; scintillation; scrap; sparkle; spit; trace; vestige; dangerous; glitter; glint; sparkle; sparkling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Not a vestige of it was to be seen.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	CHILE	The process for negotiating a formal labor contract is heavily regulated, a vestige of the statist labor policies of the 1960s. The law also permits worker-management discussions to reach collective agreements without direct union involvement. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	The cessation of the war by the complete triumph of the patriot cause has removed, it is hoped, all cause of dissension with one party and all vestige of force of the other.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Vestige" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.96% of the time. "Vestige" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.96%	95	33,629
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.04%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	96	N/A

Expression using "vestige": he hasn't a vestige of common sense. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "vestige"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, Wale, weal), rudiment (rudiment), mbeturinë (dross, fag end, leftover, remnant, residual, residuum, scrap, vestigium), gjurmë arkeologjike, gjurmë (Dent, dint, drag, footmark, footprint, footstep, groove, impress, impression, indent, indentation, marking, print, print track, scent, sign, slot, smell, spoor, stamp, step, tincture, tinge, trace, track, trail, vestigium). (various references)

Arabic		‏عضو لا وظيفي, ‏عضو أثاري, ‏أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, work), ‏بقايا (left over, oddments, odds and ends, remain, remains, remnant, residue, rubble, ruin, scrap, scrapings, snippet, tag). (various references)

Bulgarian		следа от стъпка (footmark, footstep, step), следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, touch, trace, track, trail, train, trait, whiff), рудиментарен орган (rudiment), рудимент, частица (atom, bit, fleck, fraction, molecule, particle, sippet, tittle, whit), капка (bead, dollop, dribble, dribblet, drip, drop, minim, modicum, shred, tear, tincture), знак (badge, check, denotation, ensign, indication, parallel, patent, peg, place, seal, sign, signal, symptom, type), белег (earmark, guide, impress, incision, marking, patent, peg, print, scar, seam, sign, snick, stigma, sully, symptom, tincture, token, trace, weal, welt), признак (badge, denotation, indication, note, show, sign, symptom, tincture, token, warning), диря (clue, foil, scent, seek, slot, trace, track, trail, train, wake). (various references)

Chinese		遺跡 (remain, trace), 跡 (footprint, indication, mark, sign, trace), 痕跡 , 痕迹. (various references)

Czech		známka (evidence, grade, hallmark, note, score, stamp, token, trace), zbytek (end, fag end, leftover, remain, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, scrap, survival), stopa (evidence, foot, footstep, imprint, lead, Mark, print, rut, scent, trace, track, trail). (various references)

Danish		embryonalrest (embryonic vestige). (various references)

Dutch		embryonale rest (embryonic vestige). (various references)

Farsi		نشان(vestigial), ذره (Ace, Bit, Corpuscle, Dust, Grain, Iota, Jot, Nip, Particle, Scruple, Shred, Speck, Whit), خرده (Bit, Bittock, Crumb, Debris, Fragment, Glimmer, Grain, Jot, Nip, Particle, Shred, Small, Weeny, Whit), جای پا (Rake, Toe, Trace), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Tract, Umbrage), ردیا, بقایا (Leftover, Rest). (various references)

Finnish		sikiöaikainen jäänne (embryonic vestige), alkiokautinen jäänne (embryonic vestige). (various references)

French		vestige. (various references)

German		Spur (clue, Gage, gauge, grain, hint, Lane, ounce, particle, print, rut, savor, savour, scrap, shade, shadow, shred, sign, skidmarks, smack, soupcon, spoor, sprinkling, streak, suggestion, suspicion, tail, taint, tinge, touch, trace, track, tracking, trail, whiff). (various references)

Greek		έκλιπο χαρακτηριστικό, ίχνοσ (clue, footprint, jot, scintilla, trace, track, trail). (various references)

Hebrew		שרי�" (remnant, residue). (various references)

Hungarian		nyom (clew, clue, foil, imprint, mark, push, reminiscence, sign, slot, spoor, to run off, to stress, trace, tracing, track, trail, wake), emlék (memory, monument, recollection, relic, remembrance, reminiscence, souvenir). (various references)

Italian		vestigio, traccia (foil, footprint, furrow, groove, hint, lane, line, Mark, outline, racetrack, rut, scan, shadow, sign, smear, spoor, streak, tang, tinge, trace, tracer, track, trail), rudimento (rudiment), orma (footprint, footstep, Mark, step, trace, track, trail, wake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		跡形 (evidence, trace), 事蹟 (evidence, trace), 事跡 (evidence, trace), 事迹 (evidence, trace), 残痕 (scar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ざ�"�"�" (scar), あとかた (evidence, trace), じせき (achievement, assistant, associate, evidence, exploit, junior, merits, one's desk, one's seat, runner-up, self-condemnation, trace). (various references)

Manx		lorg (club, pole, singlestick; trail, spoor, staff, trace, track). (various references)

Pig Latin		estigevay

Portuguese		vestígio (clew, clue, shadow, shew, show, sign, smack, streak, touch, trace, track, vestigium), traço (character, dash, feature, footmark, footstep, hairline, hairstroke, lay out, line, mark, mark out, scan, score, scribe, smack, streak, stroke, trace, track, trait, umbrage), sinal (alarm, Beck, character, denotation, denotement, deposit, gesture, guide, handsel, Hansel, impress, imprint, impulse, index, indication, mark, marking, note, Ober phenomenon, pledge, rubber stamp, scar, seal, sign, signal, signature, spot, stamp, symbol, symptom, tincture, token, trace, track, waveform, waveshape), resquício, pegada (footmark, footrest, footstep, step, trace, track, trail), indício (denotation, denotement, evidence, indication, shew, show, sign, signal, trace). (various references)

Romanian		vestigiu (trace), urmã (atom, clew, clue, footmark, footprint, furrow, impress, impression, imprint, indent, jot, Mark, patent office, print, pug, rear, rearward, relic, remnant, rut, scent, seal, shadow, sign, slot, spoor, stamp, step, trace, track, trail, wake), semn (auspice, badge, Beck, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, office, portent, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, wave), rãmãşiţã (end, fag end, oddment, patch, remainder, remnant, residue, rest, survival, tailing, trace), indiciu (clue, index, indication, sign), dovadã (argument, certificate, demonstration, document, eduction, evidence, example, exercise, instance, Mark, patent, proof, seal, sign, token, witness). (various references)

Russian		остаток (leftover, odd-come-short, remain, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, scraps, surplus). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trag (mark, print, scuff, spoor, strain, streak, tail, tinge, trace, tracing, track, trail, wake), ostatak (leftover, odd-come-short, oddment, relic, remain, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, rump). (various references)

Spanish		vestigio (hangover, hold over, relic, survival, trace, vestigium). (various references)

Swedish		spår (clue, corrugation, dimple for a shot pin, evidence, groove, hint, impression, line, metals, notch, scan, scent, scrap, sign, slot, spoor, taint, touch, trace, track, tracking, trail, undercut, washboard, way, whiff). (various references)

Turkish		zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, grain, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, touch, whit), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, weal, wheal), eser (achievement, baby, consequence, creation, effort, ghost, handiwork, piece, production, work), dumura uğrayan organın kalıntısı. (various references)

Ukranian		рудимент, ознака (augury, badge, bodement, character, characteristic, diagnostic, indication, note, omen, ostent, portent, prognostic, prophet, sign, testimonial), залишок (carry over, end, left over, relic, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, stump, vestigium). (various references)

Vietnamese		vết tích, dấu vết (hint, imprint). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vestigium. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	vestige. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vestige": vestiges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vestige" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Festegem, Versteeg, versteegii, verstehe, vestage, vestee, vestiage, vestiga, vestigal, vestigte, vestile, vestire, vestite. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vestige" (pronounced ve"stij)
4	-s t i j	hostage.
3	-t i j	advantage, cabotage, disadvantage, footage, frontage, percentage, reportage, vintage, Wantage.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: evites, vegies.
	-2 letters: egest, evite, geest, geste, gives, siege, sieve, vegie.
	-3 letters: egis, eves, gees, gest, gets, gies, gist, gits, give, site, tees, tegs, ties, vees, vest, vets, vies, vigs, vise.
	-4 letters: eve, gee, get, gie, git, its, see, seg, sei, set, sit, tee, teg, tie, tis, vee, veg, vet, vie, vig, vis.
	-5 letters: es, et, is, it, si, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: egestive, steeving, vegetist, vestiges.
	+2 letters: agentives, devesting, digestive, genitives, ingestive, levigates, negatives, revesting, steevings, vegetists, vertigoes, vignettes.
	+3 letters: congestive, digestives, evangelist, suggestive, televising, variegates, vertigines, vignetters.
	+4 letters: designative, digestively, evangelists, everlasting, gravimeters, investigate, legislative, longevities, oversetting, overweights, reinvesting, segregative, sovereignty, stevedoring, timeserving, vegetarians, vegetations, vicegerents.
	+5 letters: asseverating, decongestive, eigenvectors, evangelistic, everlastings, eviscerating, festivalgoer, fugitiveness, gravimetries, heavyweights, investigated, investigates, legislatives, negativeness, negativities, overfatigues, overnighters, overstepping, overstrewing, overtightens, prerogatives, regressivity, seronegative, suggestively, tergiversate, timeservings, vinaigrettes.
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