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ostend

UK/ˈɒstˌɛnd/

ostend verb: to exhibit or show.

Verb

ostend (third-person singular simple present ostends, present participle ostending, simple past and past participle ostended)

  1. To exhibit or show
    • Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend.1602 (first performance), Thomas Dickers [i.e., Thomas Dekker], Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat. […], London: […] E[dward] A[llde] for Thomas Archer, […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Ostend

Ostend

  1. A coastal city and municipality in West Flanders, Belgium.

Forms of ostend

third-person singular presentostends
present participleostending
past participleostended
pastostended

Origin of ostend

Latin ostendere (“to show”).

From Dutch Oostende, from oost (“east”) + ende (“end”); in the middle ages the city was on the easter end of an island, Testerep, which is now attached to the main land. Doublet of East End.

Questions about ostend

What does ostend mean?
Ostend means to exhibit or show.
What part of speech is ostend?
Ostend can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ostend?
Ostend is pronounced /ˈɒstˌɛnd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ostend?
The past tense of ostend is ostended.

Words near ostend in the dictionary

  1. osteitides
  2. osteitis
  3. osteitis deformans
  4. osteitis pubis
  5. osteitises
  6. ostend
  7. ostended
  8. Ostender
  9. Ostenders
  10. ostending
  11. ostends

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