Zest meaning

zĕst
Zest is enthusiasm, energy and excitement or the very outside of the peel of a citrus fruit.

An example of zest is when you are excited and enthusiastic about life.

An example of zest is the orange shavings from an orange peel.

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(by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.

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The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
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(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
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The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

The orange zest gives the strong flavors in this dish.

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Spirited enjoyment; gusto.
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To remove small pieces from (a rind from a citrus fruit) for use as a flavoring in cooking.

Zested the lemon.

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The outermost, colored portion of the peel of a citrus fruit used, often in fine shreds, as flavoring.
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Stimulating or exciting quality.
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To make more zesty.
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Keen enjoyment; gusto.

A zest for life.

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Origin of zest

  • Obsolete French orange or lemon peel
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • French zeste, Greek ζέστη (zesti = warmth).
    From Wiktionary

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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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