gest

See also: Gest

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French geste.

Noun

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

  1. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
  2. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  3. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mede to this entry?)
  4. (archaic) bearing; deportment
    • Edmund Spenser
      through his heroic grace and honorable gest
Translations

Etymology 2

Compare gist a resting place.

Noun

gest (plural gests)

  1. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Kersey to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Hanmer to this entry?)

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

gest m (plural gests or gestos)

  1. gesture

Icelandic

Noun

gest

  1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gest m, f

  1. yeast

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “gest (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛst/, /ɡɛːst/, /ɡist/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

gest (plural gestes)

  1. A guest, visitor; somebody staying at another's residence.
  2. A customer of a hostel or inn; one that pays for accomodation.
  3. A unknown person; a foreigner or outsider.
  4. A (often threatening) male individual; a ominous person.
  5. (figuratively, rare) A male lover of a woman; a man in a unofficial intimate relationship with a woman.
Derived terms
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old French geste.

Noun

gest

  1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

From Old French geste.

Noun

gest

  1. Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

Etymology 4

From gest (“guest”, noun).

Verb

gest

  1. Alternative form of gesten (“to host a guest”)

Etymology 5

From geste (“tale”, noun).

Verb

gest

  1. Alternative form of gesten (“to read poetry”)

Etymology 6

From Old English ġist.

Noun

gest

  1. Alternative form of yest (“beer foam”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin gestus, via French geste

Noun

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gester, definite plural gestene)

  1. a gesture

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin gestus, via French geste

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛst/

Noun

gest m (definite singular gesten, indefinite plural gestar, definite plural gestane)

  1. a gesture

References

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Noun

gēst m

  1. A soul, spirit, breath

Declension


Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛst/
  • audio(file)

Noun

gest m inan

  1. gesture

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French geste.

Noun

gest n (plural gesturi)

  1. gesture

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧɛst/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

gest c

  1. a gesture; a motion of the hands
    gäster med gester
    guests with gestures (title of a Swedish TV show)
  2. a gesture; a symbolic action, a signal

Declension

Declension of gest 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gest gesten gester gesterna
Genitive gests gestens gesters gesternas
  • gestik
  • gestikulation
  • gestikulera
  • gestikulering
  • gestisk
  • gestuell

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɛst/

Verb

gest

  1. Soft mutation of cest.
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