LEFTOVER


Meaning of LEFTOVER in English

I. left ‧ o ‧ ver 1 /ˈleftəʊvə $ -oʊvər/ BrE AmE adjective [only before noun]

remaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten:

leftover vegetables

a few pieces of leftover carpet

II. leftover 2 BrE AmE noun

1 . leftovers [plural] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal:

Give the leftovers to the dog.

2 . [singular] something from an earlier time that still remains, even though it is not really useful or important any more SYN hangover

leftover from

The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.