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.