From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrelicrel‧ic /ˈrelɪk/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun [countable]1REMAIN/BE LEFTan old object or custom that reminds people of the past or that has lived on from a past timeRoman relics found in a fieldrelic ofthe books and photos, relics of Rob’s university daysEverything in the house seemed old and untouched, like relics of an ancient time.2RRa part of the body or clothing of a holy person which is kept after their death because it is thought to be holyExamples from the Corpusrelic• Once viewed as a relic, continentaldrift and seafloor spreadingevolved into the modernconcept of platetectonics.• Voters passed a bill to remove a law that is a relic of the state's racist past.• The town is a relic from California's goldrush.• It was true he had grown out of it now, but it was the beloved relic of his youth.• Like so many villages in the Mani, Vátheia is a ghostlyrelic.• He received it as if it were a preciousrelic a saint had just blessed, and folded it carefully.• The latter's relicsrest on the mainaltar.• the sacredrelics of John the Baptist• The relicreposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.• The relic was found in exactly the place indicated.• Civil War relics• The treaty is now a Cold War relic.Originrelic(1200-1300)Old Frenchrelique, from Latinreliquiae"things left behind", from relinquere; → RELINQUISH