EST Definition

est, ist, əst
abbreviation
Established.
Webster's New World
Estate.
Webster's New World
Estimate.
Webster's New World
Estimated.
Webster's New World
Eastern Standard Time.
Webster's New World
suffix
Used to form the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs.
Greatest; earliest.
American Heritage
Used to form the archaic second person singular of English verbs.
Comest.
American Heritage
affix
Forming the superlative degree of most adjectives and adverbs of one or two syllables.
Greatest, soonest.
Webster's New World
Forming the archaic 2d pers. sing. of verbs [goest]: in certain cases, it becomes -st.
Hadst.
Webster's New World
noun

(obsolete) Grace; favour.

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Synonyms:
adjective

Abbreviation of established.

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Origin of EST

  • From Middle English este, from Old English ēst (“will, consent, favour, grace, liberality, munificence, bounty, kindness, love, good pleasure, harmony, liberal gifts, luxuries”), from Proto-Germanic *anstiz (“favour, affection”), from Proto-Indo-European *ān- (“to notice; face, mouth”). 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”). More at own.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English -est, -ast, -ost

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old English -est, -ast

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

EST Sentence Examples

  • He was named as one of the counsellors to assist the queen, but, fearing to incur the king's displeasure and using his favourite phrase ira principis mors est, he gave her very little help; and he signed the letter to Clement VII.

  • Napoleon might have remembered his own saying, " La misere est 1'ecole du bon soldat."

  • In the crypt is the grave of a traveller, who succumbed to excessive drinking of the local wine known as Est, est, est.

  • The story is that his valet who preceded him wrote "est" on the doors of all the inns where good wine was to be had, and that here the inscription was thrice repeated.

  • If S is the area of the orbit described in time T by an electron of charge e, the moment of the equivalent magnet is M = eST; and the change in the value of M due to an external field H is shown to be OM = - He'S/47rm, m being the mass of the electron.

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