<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a surviving memorial of something past.</li><li>an object having interest by reason of its age or its association with the past: a museum of historic relics.</li><li>a surviving trace of something: a custom that is a relic of paganism.</li><li>relics, remaining parts or fragments.</li><li>the remains of a deceased person.</li><li>something kept in remembrance; souvenir; memento.</li><li>(Ecclesiastical) (especially in the Roman Catholic and Greek churches) the body, a part of the body, or some personal memorial of a saint, martyr, or other sacred person, preserved as worthy of veneration.</li><li>a once widespread linguistic form that survives in a limited area but is otherwise obsolete.</li></ul>