Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A notable adventure or exploit.
- n. A verse romance or tale.
- n. A prose romance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of guest.
- n. That which is done; an act, deed, or achievement.
- n. A tale of achievement or adventure; a story; a romance.
- To tell stories or romances.
- n. Bearing; carriage of one's person; deportment.
- n. Gesture.
- n. A stage, rest, or stop in traveling: same as gist.
- n. A list of the several stages of a journey; an itinerary; specifically, a roll or journal of the several days and stages prearranged for a royal progress in England. Many such gests are extant in the heralds' office.
- A simplified spelling of guest.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A gesture or action.
- n. archaic A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- n. obsolete A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
- n. obsolete A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A guest.
- n. obsolete Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
- n. obsolete An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- n. obsolete A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
- n. Archaic Gesture; bearing; deportment.
- n. obsolete A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
- n. obsolete A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
Etymologies
- Compare gist a resting place. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English geste; see jest. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The reason it gest so bad is most of these operations either pile up the waste for drying or composting.”
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“Tas and Woodrow stood for a moment, trying to di - gest what was happening to them.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gest’.
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 238 more...
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crosswords
yen, emend, fete, gest, orlop, latria, ensilage, aria, wend, ilk, fen, espy and 9 more...
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O So Zhinsky!
zarf, liripipe, theandric, tazza, bobeche, autotelic, gonfalon, refulgent, crepuscular, caduceus, knop, labarum and 46 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Becoming Words
inchoateness
effervescent, albescent, concrescence, fervescent, frondescent, suffrutescent, violescent, viridescent, resipiscence, rufescent, sonorescent, tenebrescence and 131 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is on a quest for a gest with a guest wearing a vest from the west (lest he be a pest). Feb 16, 2011