vestige
vestige Lexical Profile
vestige Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something that is vanishing or no longer exists.
"The crumbling stone walls are the last remaining vestiges of the medieval fortress."
The smallest amount or slightest indication of a quality, feeling, or condition (usually used in negative contexts).
"He spoke calmly and showed not a vestige of nervousness during the interview."
A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed anatomical structure or organ that was more fully developed and functional in an earlier evolutionary stage of the organism or its ancestors.
"In whales and certain snakes, pelvic bones persist as evolutionary vestiges of their land-dwelling ancestors' hind limbs."
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the early 17th century from French 'vestige', from Latin 'vestigium', originally meaning 'footprint' or 'track' and later extended to any surviving trace.