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Est
Definitions
- 1 Abbreviation of established. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
"Acme Manufacturing Inc., est 1952"
- 1 Initialism of Erhard Seminars Training, a course intended to promote satisfaction with life in the present moment, as opposed to strivings to attain it. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Esther, the book of Esther
- 3 Initialism of Eastern Standard Time. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"At 3:01pm EST, one of the editors who began removing gendered content, SuperPianoMan9167, reverted an edit that stated, “He identified as a woman” to “She identified as a woman.”"
- 4 Initialism of Extended Standard Theory. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Alternative letter-case form of est (“Erhard Seminars Training”). alt-of
"[…] Tatum, who wears a different color Danskin every day, or Wayne, who grows sinsemilla in his actual closet, or Boomer, who's always hugging everyone since his family did EST."
- 1 Grace; favour. obsolete, uncountable, usually
- 2 Initialism of English subtitles. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
- 3 standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States wordnet
- 4 Initialism of expressed sequence tag. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of endodermal sinus tumor. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Etymology
From Middle English este, from Old English ēst (“will, consent, favour”), from Proto-West Germanic *ansti, from Proto-Germanic *anstiz (“favour, affection”), from Proto-Indo-European *ān- (“to notice; face, mouth”) or from *h₃neh₂- (“to bestow, offer, help; to enjoy”). Cognate with Icelandic ást (“affection, love”), Dutch gunst (“favour, grace, courtesy, privilege”), German Gunst (“favour, goodwill, boon”), Danish yndest (“favour”), Swedish ynnest (“favour, indulgence, grace”).
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