Est

//ɛst// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of established. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable

    "Acme Manufacturing Inc., est 1952"

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Esther, the book of Esther
  3. 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. 4
    Initialism of Extended Standard Theory. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    Grace; favour. obsolete, uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    Initialism of English subtitles. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
  3. 3
    standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States wordnet
  4. 4
    Initialism of expressed sequence tag. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 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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