geest
/ɡiːst/
geest noun: a type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
Noun
geest (plural geests)
- A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
- the waves, beating agaiņst the geest, were thence repelled upon the marsch.1827, Georges Cuvier, translated by Robert Jameson, Essay on the Theory of the Earth
Forms of geest
| plural | geests |
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Origin of geest
Borrowed from German Geest (from Low German güst (“dry, infertile”, adjective), from Middle Low German gēst (“dry, elevated”, literally “cracking, gaping, yawning”)) or Dutch geest (from Middle Dutch geest, from Old Dutch *gēst (“dry, infertile”)), in either case a substantivization of what was initially an adjective, Proto-Germanic *gais- (“infertile”), ultimately probably from *gīnan. See also German gähnen.
Words that rhyme with geest
- beast
- east
- yeast
- deceased
- feast
- least
- creased
- east-northeast
- priest
- a contented mind is a perpetual feast
- batiste
- ceased
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Questions about geest
- What does geest mean?
- Geest means a type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
- What part of speech is geest?
- Geest is a noun.
- How do you pronounce geest?
- Geest is pronounced /ɡiːst/.
- What is the plural of geest?
- The plural of geest is geests.
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