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oast

/əʊst/

oast noun: a kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.

Noun

oast (plural oasts)

  1. (UK) A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.

oast meaning in Tamil and Bengali

oast in Tamil

உணத்து குடில், கணப்பு

oast in Bengali

তামাক

Forms of oast

pluraloasts
alternative formoust
alternative formost
alternative form (obsolete)east

Origin of oast

From Middle English ost, from Old English āst (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *aisǭ (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ād (“fire; funeral pyre”).

Words formed from oast

Phrases with oast

Words that rhyme with oast

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Questions about oast

What does oast mean?
Oast means a kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.
What is oast in Tamil?
Oast in Tamil is உணத்து குடில், கணப்பு. See Oast meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oast?
Oast is a noun.
How do you pronounce oast?
Oast is pronounced /əʊst/ (UK).
What is the plural of oast?
The plural of oast is oasts.

Words near oast in the dictionary

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  2. oasises
  3. oasisless
  4. oasislike
  5. oasitic
  6. oast
  7. oast house
  8. oast houses
  9. oasthouse
  10. oasthouses
  11. oasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oast (page history and authors); oast (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oast (Bengali 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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