Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A notable adventure or exploit.
- noun A verse romance or tale.
- noun A prose romance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
guest . - To tell stories or romances.
- noun That which is done; an act, deed, or achievement.
- noun A tale of achievement or adventure; a story; a romance.
- noun Bearing; carriage of one's person; deportment.
- noun Gesture.
- noun A stage, rest, or stop in traveling: same as
gist . - noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A guest.
- noun obsolete A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
- noun obsolete A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
- noun obsolete Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
- noun obsolete An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
- noun obsolete A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
- noun Archaic Gesture; bearing; deportment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
gesture oraction . - noun archaic A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- noun obsolete A
stage intravelling ; astop forrest orlodging in ajourney ; arest . - noun obsolete A
roll reciting the several stages arranged for aroyal progress .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When I was pregnant with Laura, I had gest. diabetes, requiring weekly blood draws for three months.
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Fed officials said it was the big gest release of crisis lending data that a central bank has ever done.
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An yu was eggsalad gest – as gud a gest as SUnny is a hostess! sunnyhuckle says:
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Lewis Ranieri, the pioneer of the home-mortgage-bond market, is turning his sights onto how to be part of what he says could be "the lar gest real-estate restructuring" in history: commercial real estate.
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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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Ai did fynd a playse wayr u can try tu be a gest awn teh sho, but it duzznt say hao menny munneez u will gets, juss kweschuns lyke…
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Tas and Woodrow stood for a moment, trying to di - gest what was happening to them.
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And Temple Grandin and cites pork companies to phase out gest. stalls.
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word gest
JM is on a quest for a gest with a guest wearing a vest from the west (lest he be a pest).
February 17, 2011