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.

Wiktionary
adjective

Abbreviation of established.

Wiktionary

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

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