Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ancient architecture, a covered portico or open court, of great length in proportion to its width, in which athletes performed their exercises; or, in Roman villas, sometimes, a garden walk planted with trees. Also xystos, xystus.
Wiktionary
- n. A xystus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anc. Arch.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.
Examples
“If you've never heard of an ancient portico whose name is pronounced ZIST, the spelling xyst may well elude you.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xyst’.
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
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5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 47 more...
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There's a word for it
catkin, pastiche, badonkadonk, biome, omphaloscopy, pogonophobia, reptation, anathema, xyst, commodify, commoditize, monetize and 69 more...
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Fancy Foreign Words
de facto, Zeitgeist, schadenfreude, apropos, per se, Auteur, tookus, de rigueur, xyst, arrivederci, sotto, troika and 15 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 56 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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"X" Words
Scrabble List
axe, box, cox, dex, fax, fix, fox, gox, hex, kex, lax, lex and 77 more...
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Entertaining
schwa, pusillanimous, Visigoth, polliwog, syzygy, xyst, smirch, gimcrack, strumpet, sardoodledom, wonky, nudibranch and 5 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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: ) words
solace, implicit, lambent, noetic, aestival, anemone, opalescent, virago, rhapsody, sidereal, pelagic, ebullient and 51 more...
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Welder
risus, yttric, macled, hyte, gleg, unbe, pree, fice, peth, grith, xyst, nare
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W.E.L.D.E.R.
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Scrabs
aiblins, ibex, ixia, ilex, xyst, zoea, prester, fovea, barniest, cwm
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