gest

Borrowed from Middle French geste.

gest (countable and uncountable, plural gests)

1. (obsolete) A gesture or action.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was […].

2. (archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.

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3. (archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

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4. (archaic) bearing; deportment
   • Edmund Spenser

     through his heroic grace and honorable gest

Compare gist a resting place.

gest (plural gests)

1. (obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.

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2. (obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.

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• gets, steg, tegs

gest m (plural gests or gestos)

1. gesture

gest

1. indefinite accusative singular of gestur

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

gest m or f

1. yeast

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• gist

• Dutch: gist

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

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

• geste, gist, geast, gyst

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

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.

• gesten
• gestenen
• gestyng

• English: guest
• Scots: guest

• “gest (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

From Old French geste.

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

From Old French geste.

gest

1. Alternative form of geste (“tribe”)

From gest (“guest”, noun).

gest

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

From geste (“tale”, noun).

gest

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

From Old English ġist.

gest

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

From Latin gestus, via French geste

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

1. a gesture

• “gest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin gestus, via French geste

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

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

1. a gesture

• “gest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

gēst m

1. A soul, spirit, breath

• Middle Low German: gēst, geist
  • Low German: geest

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

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gest m inan

1. gesture

From French geste.

gest n (plural gesturi)

1. gesture

• IPA^(key): /ɧɛst/

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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

• gestik
• gestikulation
• gestikulera
• gestikulering
• gestisk
• gestuell

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛst/

gest

1. Soft mutation of cest.