Zest Definition

zĕst
zests
noun
zests
Flavor or piquancy.
A spice that lends zest to the sauce.
American Heritage
The outermost, colored portion of the peel of a citrus fruit used, often in fine shreds, as flavoring.
Webster's New World
Interest or excitement.
American Heritage
Stimulating or exciting quality.
Webster's New World
Keen enjoyment; gusto.
A zest for life.
Webster's New World
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verb
zests
To remove small pieces from (a rind from a citrus fruit) for use as a flavoring in cooking.
Zested the lemon.
American Heritage

(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.

Wiktionary

To make more zesty.

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Other Word Forms of Zest

Noun

Singular:
zest
Plural:
zests

Origin of Zest

  • French zeste, Greek ζέστη (zesti = warmth).

    From Wiktionary

  • Obsolete French orange or lemon peel

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

Zest Sentence Examples

  • His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.

  • Napoleon applied himself with more zest to his studies, in the hope of speedily qualifying himself for the artillery.

  • While maintaining intact its religious attitude and its theory of knowledge, it returned with new zest to scientific studies, especially the study of the old philosophers.

  • This high physical zest in life seems to have declined after 1831, when his eyes began to trouble him, and he became liable to depression.

  • The great philosophical impulse was that given by Darwin in 1859 through his demonstration of the theory of descent, which gave tremendous zest to the search for pedigrees (phylogeny) of the existing and extinct types of animal and plant life.

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