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Pesth

Pesth is the obsolete spelling of Pest.

Meaning of Pest

Proper noun

Pest

  1. (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
  2. The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
    • On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times
  3. A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

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Questions about Pesth

What is Pesth the obsolete spelling of?
Pesth is the obsolete spelling of Pest.

Words near Pesth in the dictionary

  1. pesters
  2. pestersome
  3. pestery
  4. pestfree
  5. pestful
  6. Pesth
  7. pesthole
  8. pestholes
  9. pesthouse
  10. pesthouses
  11. pesticidal

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