est
/ɛst/
est noun: grace; favour. Also the abbreviation of established.
Noun (1)
est (usually uncountable, plural ests)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: EST
EST
- Initialism of Eastern Standard Time.
- Initialism of Extended Standard Theory.
- Alternative letter-case form of est (“Erhard Seminars Training”).
- […] Tatum, who wears a different color Danskin every day, or Wayne, who grows sinsemilla in his actual closet, or Boomer, who's always hugging everyone since his family did EST.2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad
Noun (2) capitalized: EST
EST (plural ESTs)
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Est
Est
- Esther, the book of Esther
Also used as
est is also the abbreviation of established.
est is also the initialism of Erhard Seminars Training.
Examples of est in a sentence
- There is a significant cathartic element in that emotional release is generated by the est techniques.
- EST was widely criticized for sanctifying selfishness and for abrasive and traumatic training sessions.
- Werner Erhard's highly successful est cult is partly derived from Scientology.
Forms of est
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ests |
| alternative form | este |
| plural | ESTs |
| Adjective | |
| alternative form | est. |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | EST |
| alternative form | Est |
Origin of est
From Middle English este, from Old English ēst (“will, consent, favour”), from Proto-West Germanic *ansti, from Proto-Germanic *anstiz (“favour, affection”), from Proto-Indo-European *ān- (“to notice; face, mouth”) or from *h₃neh₂- (“to bestow, offer, help; to enjoy”). 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”).
Words formed from est
- re-est
- Estish
Phrases with est
Words that rhyme with est
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
Questions about est
- What does est mean?
- Est means grace; favour.
- What part of speech is est?
- Est can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce est?
- Est is pronounced /ɛst/.
- What is the plural of est?
- The plural of est is ests.
Words near est in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: est (page history and authors); EST (page history and authors); Est (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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