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gust

/ɡʌst/

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Northern England/ɡʊst/

gust noun: a strong, abrupt rush of wind.

Noun (1)

gust (plural gusts)

  1. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
    • The maximum sustained winds recorded at Waglan Island, Tate’s Cairn and Cheung Chau Beach were 113, 101 and 97 kmh (70, 62, 60 mph) respectively, with maximum gusts 135, 154 and 130 kmh (84, 96, 81 mph)2017 August 26, Anne Marie Roantree, Venus Wu, “Battered Hong Kong and Macau brace for Pakhar, more flooding”, in Andrew Hay, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, COMMODITIES...
    Synonyms:
    windflaw
  2. (broadly) Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion, etc.).
    • they are merely driven about by every sudden gust and impulse of the mind1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
    • The author is not speaking now of actual love-makings, of intrigues and devilish villany, either perpetrated or imagined; but rather of those passing gusts of short-lived and unfounded suspicion to which, as to other accidents, very well-regulated families may occasionally be liable.1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Hard Words”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 73

Verb (1)

gust (third-person singular simple present gusts, present participle gusting, simple past and past participle gusted)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To blow in gusts.
    • Do the dryers disperse bacteria and viruses through the restroom, like autumn breezes gusting leaves across a lawn?2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian

Noun (2)

gust (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
  2. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
    • , "The Spirit of Grace"
      An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.
    • Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
  3. Intellectual taste; fancy.
    • A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC

Verb (2)

gust (third-person singular simple present gusts, present participle gusting, simple past and past participle gusted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To taste.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To have a relish for.

Proper noun capitalized: Gust

Gust (plural Gusts)

  1. A surname.

gust meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

gust in Hindi

strong, abrupt rush of wind
झोंका jhõkā
any rush or outburst
आवेश āveś

gust in Tamil

வன்காற்று, பலமான காற்று, சூறைக்காற்று

gust in Urdu

ہوا کا جھونکا, جھکڑ, لذت, لطف

gust in Bengali

বাতাসের ঝাপটা, দমকা হাওয়া, আকস্মিক আবেগ
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gust in Malayalam
കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ്, കോള്, ചണ്ഡവാതം, കോപാവേശം
gust in Kannada
ಹಠಾತ್ ಗಾಳಿ, ಹೊಯ್ಗಾಳಿ, ಹೊಯ್ಮಳೆ, ಹೊಡೆತ
gust in Pashto
سيلۍ
gust in Arabic
هَبَّة habba
gust in Indonesian
hembusan, hembus, berhembus
gust in Persian
جست jast

Examples of gust in a sentence

  • There was a sudden gust of wind, on which spores were borne away.
  • A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.
  • He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.

All 33 example sentences with gust

Synonyms of gust

Forms of gust

Noun
pluralgusts
Verb
third-person singular presentgusts
present participlegusting
past participlegusted
pastgusted
Proper noun
pluralGusts

Plural of gust: gusts

Origin of gust

Apparently from an unrecorded Middle English *gust, from Old Norse gustr (“a gust, blast”), from Proto-Germanic *gustiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-. Cognate with Icelandic gustur (“gust of wind”). Related also to Old Norse gusa (“to gush forth”), Old High German gussa (“flood”), Middle English guschen (> English gush). The English word was not recorded before Shakespeare.

From Middle English gust, guste, from Latin gustus (“taste”) and Old French gust, goust.

From Middle English gusten (“to taste, have a taste for”), from the noun (see above).

Words formed from gust

Phrases with gust

Words that rhyme with gust

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Questions about gust

What does gust mean?
Gust means a strong, abrupt rush of wind.
What is gust in Hindi?
Gust in Hindi is झोंका (jhõkā), आवेश (āveś). See Gust meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gust?
Gust can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gust?
Gust is pronounced /ɡʌst/.
What is the plural of gust?
The plural of gust is gusts.

Words near gust in the dictionary

  1. gussuks
  2. gussy
  3. gussy up
  4. gussying
  5. gussying up
  6. gust
  7. gust decay time
  8. gust formation time
  9. gust formation times
  10. gust front
  11. gust fronts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gust (page history and authors); Gust (page history and authors); gust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gust (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gust (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gust (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gust (Kannada 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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