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prests

prests is the plural of prest.

Meaning of prest

Noun

prest (plural prests)

  1. (rare) A payment of wages in advance
  2. A loan or advance (of money)
    • Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
  3. A tax or duty
  4. (obsolete) A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
  5. A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
    • the same tayles soe hereafter there to be levyed and striken, shalbe delyvered unto everye of the same Sheriffes[…]without prest or other chardge to be sett upon them for the same.1548, King Edward VI, Act 2

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Proper noun capitalized: Prests

Prests

  1. (plural) plural of Prest

Questions about prests

What is prests the plural of?
Prests is the plural of prest.
What part of speech is prests?
Prests is a proper noun.

Words near prests in the dictionary

  1. prestructure
  2. prestructured
  3. prestructures
  4. prestructuring
  5. prestrung
  6. prests
  7. prestudied
  8. prestudies
  9. prestudio
  10. prestudy
  11. prestudying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prests (page history and authors); Prests (page history and authors); prest (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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