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est¹

  • /ɛst/

Rhymes with -ɛst

Where it comes from

From Middle English este, from Old English ēst (“will, consent, favour”), from Proto-West Germanic *ansti, from Proto-Germanic *anstiz (“favour, affection”), from Proto-Indo-European *ān- (“to notice; face, mouth”) or from *h₃neh₂- (“to bestow, offer, help; to enjoy”).

Cognate with Icelandic ást (“affection, love”), Dutch gunst (“favour, grace, courtesy, privilege”), German Gunst (“favour, goodwill, boon”), Danish yndest (“favour”), Swedish ynnest (“favour, indulgence, grace”).

noun ests · este

  1. obsolete, uncountable, usually Grace; favour.

est²

  • /ɛst/

Rhymes with -ɛst

adjective est.

  1. abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of established Acme Manufacturing Inc., est 1952

est³

  • /ɛst/

Rhymes with -ɛst

proper noun EST · Est

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Erhard Seminars Training, a course intended to promote satisfaction with life in the present moment, as opposed to strivings to attain it.

Est⁴

proper noun

  1. Esther, the book of Esther

EST⁵

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Eastern Standard Time
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Extended Standard Theory
  3. Alternative letter-case form of est (“Erhard Seminars Training”). […] Tatum, who wears a different color Danskin every day, or Wayne, who grows sinsemilla in his actual closet, or Boomer, who's always hugging everyone since his family did EST.

noun ESTs

  1. abbreviation, initialism, plural, plural only Initialism of English subtitles
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of expressed sequence tag
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of endodermal sinus tumor

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: eastern time, approximate, also, estimation, estimate, shall, pops, vte, was, hae, alley, sud, are, east, slo, tev

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name Eastern Standard Time

FrançaisHNE

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Chicago

"est." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/est.

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@misc{est_2026,
  title = {est},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/est},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}