Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - relic

(relics) 1. If you refer to something or someone as a relic of an earlier period, you mean that they belonged to that period but have survived into the present. Germany’s asylum law is a relic of an era in European history which has passed... N-COUNT: usu N of/from n 2. A relic is something which was made or used a long time ago and which is kept for its historical significance. ...a museum of war relics. N-COUNT: usu with supp