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gest¹

  • /d͡ʒɛst/ US, UK

Sounds like jest · Rhymes with -ɛst

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.

noun gests

  1. archaic, countable, uncountable A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance. The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.
  2. archaic, countable, uncountable An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
  3. archaic, countable, uncountable Bearing; deportment. through his heroic grace and honorable gest
  4. countable, obsolete, uncountable A gesture or action. They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.

gest²

  • /d͡ʒɛst/ US, UK

Sounds like jest · Rhymes with -ɛst

Where it comes from

A variant of gist (“resting-place”).

noun gests

  1. alternative, obsolete Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”). […]Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lor

Gest³

Where it comes from

From the German surname, related to geest (“sandy area”).

proper noun Gests

  1. A surname.

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noun verse romance

Françaisgeste

noun gesture

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gest. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gest

Chicago

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

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@misc{gest_2026,
  title = {gest},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gest},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}