gast

From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/

gast (third-person singular simple present gasts, present participle gasting, simple past and past participle gasted)

1. (obsolete) To frighten.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame

     And be not so a-gast, for shame!

   • William Shakespeare, King Lear

     Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled.

• ATGs, GATS, TAGs, gats, stag, tags

gast f (plural gasted)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore, bitch

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑst/

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• Rhymes: -ɑst

From Old Dutch *gast, from Proto-Germanic *gastiz.

gast m (plural gasten, diminutive gastje n)

1. guest

   Ik heb afgelopen week wat familie te gast gehad. ― Some family members stayed with me as guests last week.

   Synonym: genodigde

   Antonyms: gastheer, gastvrouw

2. (chiefly in combinations) knave, worker, apprentice, delivery boy

   Antonyms: meester, stagemeester

3. (colloquial) dude, guy

   Synonyms: gozer, vent

   Die gast is echt niet goed bij z'n hoofd. ― That guy really isn't right in the head.

   Zijn broer is best een aardige gast. ― His brother is quite a nice guy.

   Gast, waar heb je het nou helemaal over? ― Dude, what are you even on about?

• vergasten
• bakkersgast
• eregast
• slagersgast
• spuitgast
• gastenverblijf
• gastheer
• gasthuis
• gastorganisme
• gastrecht
• gastvriend
• gastvrij
• gastvrouw

See the etymology of the main entry.

gast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of gassen

gast

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄

• gǣst, gaast

From West Germanic *gaist (“spirit”), from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz. Cognate with Old Frisian jēst (West Frisian geast), Old Saxon gēst (Low German Geest), Old Dutch geist (Dutch geest), Old High German geist (German Geist). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeysd-, *ǵʰisd- (“anger, agitation”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/, [ɣɑːst] (early Old English)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːst/, [ɡɑːst] (late Old English)

gāst m

1. spirit

   se Hālga Gāst

   the Holy Spirit

   Iċ bēo mid þē on gāste.

   I'll be with you in spirit.

   Ǣr hīe trēow forċeorfaþ, hīe biddaþ þæs trēowes gāst forġiefnesse.

   Before they cut down a tree, they ask the spirit of the tree for forgiveness.

2. ghost

   Hwȳ habbaþ gāstas clāðas on? Iċ mǣne, hwȳ ne sind hīe ealle nacode?

   Why do ghosts have clothes on? I mean, why aren't they all naked?

3. breath

• Middle English: gast, gost
  • Scots: gast, gaist
  • English: ghost

• wast

gast m (oblique plural gaz or gatz, nominative singular gaz or gatz, nominative plural gast)

1. destruction

gast m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gaste)

1. destroyed; ravaged; decimated

• English: waste (from the variant wast)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gast)
• gast on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

From Proto-Germanic *gastiz (whence also Old Norse gestr), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis; cognate with Latin hostis (“enemy”).

gast m (plural gesti)

1. guest

• Middle High German: gast
  • German: Gast
    • → Esperanto: gasto
  • Luxembourgish: Gaascht
  • Yiddish: גאַסט‎ (gast)

From Proto-Germanic *gastiz, whence also Old English ġiest.

gast m

1. guest

• Middle Low German: gast
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Gast

    Sauerländisch: Gast

    Westmünsterländisch: Gast

  • Plautdietsch: Gaust
  • → West Frisian: gast

gast c

1. A crew member on a ship

gast c

1. (dated or poetic, dialectal) A ghost

gast f (plural geist)

1. (vulgar, derogatory) bitch