vestige.

A small remaining sign of something that has mostly disappeared.

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Words that belong together

• last vestige of hope
• vestige of an earlier wall

On the page

A stone step was the only vestige of the house that had stood there.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Singular vestige; plural vestiges. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.