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kist

kist is the simple past and past participle of kiss.

kist is the alternative form of cist.

Noun (1)

kist (plural kists)

  1. (Scotland) A chest.
    • the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), page 17
  2. (Scotland) A coffin.

Meaning of kiss

Verb

kiss (third-person singular simple present kisses, present participle kissing, simple past and past participle kissed or (obsolete) kist)

  1. (transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.
    • He […] kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, / That at the parting all the church echoed.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact.
    • The nearside of the car just kissed a parked truck as he took the corner at high speed.
  3. (reciprocal) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.
    • We're kissing in the moonlight / Love was shining so bright and true1990, Norell Oson Bard, “Kissing in the Moonlight”performed by The Boppers
  4. (archaic, transitive) To treat with fondness.

See all 10 meanings of kiss

Meaning of cist

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

Verb

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.

Noun (2)

kist (plural kists)

  1. (British, India) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

Noun (3) capitalized: Kist

Kist (plural Kists)

  1. Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.
    Synonyms:
    Nakh

Proper noun capitalized: Kist

Kist (plural Kists)

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of kist

Forms of kist

Noun
pluralkists
pluralKists
Verb
third-person singular presentkists
present participlekisting
past participlekisted
pastkisted
Proper noun
pluralKists

Origin of kist

Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”). Doublet of cesta, chest, and kesh

Borrowed from Hindustani قِسْط (qisṭ, “installment”) / क़िस्त (qist), from Arabic قِسْط (qisṭ, literally “quota”).

From the root of Georgian ქისტები (kisṭebi, “Ingush”).

Words formed from kist

Questions about kist

What does kist mean?
Kist means a chest.
What is kist the simple past and past participle of?
Kist is the simple past and past participle of kiss.
What part of speech is kist?
Kist can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kist?
The plural of kist is kists.

Words near kist in the dictionary

  1. kissy-kissy
  2. kissy-kissying
  3. kissybug
  4. kissying up
  5. Kissé
  6. kist
  7. kistbandi
  8. kisted
  9. Kister
  10. Kisters
  11. kistful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kist (page history and authors); Kist (page history and authors); kiss (page history and authors); cist (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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