remain vs wait on

remain

verb
  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

wait on

verb
  • To wait for (a person). 

  • To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. 

  • To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). 

  • To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung. 

  • To be in store for (someone). 

How often have the words remain and wait on occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )