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zeist

zeist noun: one who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.

Noun

zeist (plural zeists)

  1. (archaic, historical) One who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.
    Antonyms:
    antizeist

Proper noun capitalized: Zeist

Zeist

  1. A town and municipality of Utrecht, Netherlands.

zeist meaning in Kannada

zeist in Kannada

ಜೋಳವಾದಿ

Antonyms of zeist

Forms of zeist

pluralzeists

Origin of zeist

From New Latin zea, from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”), + -ist.

Borrowed from Dutch Zeist.

Questions about zeist

What does zeist mean?
Zeist means one who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.
What is zeist in Kannada?
Zeist in Kannada is ಜೋಳವಾದಿ. See Zeist meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is zeist?
Zeist can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of zeist?
The plural of zeist is zeists.

Words near zeist in the dictionary

  1. Zeisler
  2. Zeislers
  3. Zeisloft
  4. zeism
  5. Zeiss
  6. zeist
  7. zeists
  8. zeitgeber
  9. zeitgebers
  10. zeitgeist
  11. zeitgeisten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zeist (page history and authors); Zeist (page history and authors); zeist (Kannada 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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