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ist

/ɪst/

ist noun: a practitioner or supporter of an ism.

Noun

ist (plural ists)

  1. A practitioner or supporter of an ism.
    • Not the obsession with the isms and the ists of Balls, Miliband, Cooper and Alexander and their acolytes.2009 March 29, Kevin McKenna, “That's enough men leaning on shovels”, in The Observer

Proper noun capitalized: IST

IST

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of India Standard Time.

Adjective (1) capitalized: IST

IST (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of incompetent to stand trial.

Adjective (2) capitalized: Ist

Ist (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of first.
    • The reply from one large branch of the musculo-cutaneous in the forearm is abolished, but not the reply from the other. 3rd section, replies from musculo-cutaneous in forearm abolished; from Ist and IInd palmar and dorsal digitales collaterales reduced. 4th section, replies from Ist, IInd, and...1894, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Biological sciences, volume 184
    • If each angle were multiplied by three, the eighteen entries of the 1ˢᵗ quadrant would be converted into three groups of six, lying in three quadrants, viz., Iˢᵗ, IIⁿᵈ, IIIʳᵈ;1907, George Howard Darwin, Scientific Papers, volume 1, page 178

ist meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

ist in Hindi

आई. एस. टी

ist in Marathi

आय. एस. टी

ist in Urdu

آئی ایس ٹی, آئی ایس۔ ٹی

ist in Bengali

আই. এস. টি
More languagesFewer languages
ist in Malayalam
ഐ. എസ്. ടി
ist in Kannada
ಐ. ಎಸ್. ಟಿ
ist in Punjabi
ਆਈ. ਐੱਸ. ਟੀ, ਆਈ. ਐਸ. ਟੀ
ist in Gujarati
આઈ. એસ. ટી
ist in Odia
ଆଇ. ଏସ୍. ଟି, ଆଇ. ଏସ. ଟି
ist in Nepali
आइएसटी

Forms of ist

pluralists

Origin of ist

From the suffix -ist.

From I (Roman numeral representing one) + -st.

Phrases with ist

Words that rhyme with ist

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Questions about ist

What does ist mean?
Ist means a practitioner or supporter of an ism.
What is ist in Hindi?
Ist in Hindi is आई. एस. टी. See Ist meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ist?
Ist can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce ist?
Ist is pronounced /ɪst/.
What is the plural of ist?
The plural of ist is ists.

Words near ist in the dictionary

  1. issur
  2. Issus
  3. Issy
  4. Issyk Kul
  5. Issyk-Kul
  6. ist
  7. Ist person
  8. Istaevones
  9. Istakhr
  10. Istambul
  11. Istanbul

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ist (page history and authors); IST (page history and authors); Ist (page history and authors); ist (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ist (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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