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cist

/ˈsɪst/

cist noun: a small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.

Noun (1)

cist (plural cists)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.

Noun (2)

cist (plural cists)

  1. A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
    • A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 66

cist meaning in Tamil

cist in Tamil

தாழி

Forms of cist

pluralcists
alternative formkist

Origin of cist

Borrowed from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Doublet of chest.

Borrowed from Welsh cist (“chest”) (see kistvaen), from Latin cista (“chest, casket”), see above.

Words formed from cist

  • cist-urn

Words that rhyme with cist

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Questions about cist

What does cist mean?
Cist means a small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
What is cist in Tamil?
Cist in Tamil is தாழி. See Cist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cist?
Cist is a noun.
How do you pronounce cist?
Cist is pronounced /ˈsɪst/.
What is the plural of cist?
The plural of cist is cists.

Words near cist in the dictionary

  1. cissupremacist
  2. cissupremacy
  3. cissus
  4. cissuses
  5. cissy
  6. cist
  7. CISTA
  8. cistaceous
  9. cistactic
  10. cistacticity
  11. cistanbuloside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cist (page history and authors); cist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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