vest
English
Etymology
From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes-ti(h₂)-, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Spanish vestir.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
vest (plural vests)
- (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
- (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
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- (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
- A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
- Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
- 2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162:
- He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?
- 2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, →ISBN, page 162:
- A vestment.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
- In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
- Clothing generally; array; garb.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Wordsworth
- Not seldom clothed in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Wordsworth
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (sleeveless outergarment): safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest
Translations
loose robe worn in Middle East and elsewhere in Arab world
garment worn over a shirt
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garment worn under a shirt
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sleeveless top with identifying colours or logos
any sleeveless outer garment
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Verb
vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)
- To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
- With ether vested, and a purple sky.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
- to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death
- (Can we date this quote?) Prior
- Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
- To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
- The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Locke
- Empire and dominion was vested in him.
- (obsolete) To invest; to put.
- to vest money in goods, land, or houses
- (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
- to vest a person with an estate
- an estate is vested in possession
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (commonly used of financial arrangements) To become vested, to become permanent.
- My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.
- 2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104
- If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.
- 2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC
- Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.
Further reading
- vest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vest in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vest at OneLook Dictionary Search
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛst/, [ʋɛsd̥]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Inflection
Declension of vest
common gender |
Singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vest | vesten |
genitive | vests | vestens |
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛst
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Synonyms
Latvian
Conjugation
conjugation of vest
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | vedu | vedu | vedīšu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | ved | vedi | vedīsi | ved |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | ved | veda | vedīs | lai ved |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | vedam | vedām | vedīsim | vedīsim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | vedat | vedāt | vedīsiet, vedīsit |
vediet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | ved | veda | vedīs | lai ved |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | vedot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | vedošs | ||
Past | esot vedis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | vezdams | ||
Future | vedīšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | vedot | ||
Imperative | lai vedot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | vedam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | vedis | |||
Present | vestu | Present Passive | vedams | ||
Past | būtu vedis | Past Passive | vests | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jāved | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | vest | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jāved | Negative Infinitive | nevest | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jāvedot | Verbal noun | vešana |
Norwegian Bokmål

vest
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from vest
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Romanian
Declension
declension of vest (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) vest | vestul |
genitive/dative | (unui) vest | vestului |
vocative | vestule |
Romansch
Etymology
From a Germanic language.
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian) vijȇst
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *věstь, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *věstь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋéːst/
- Tonal orthography: vẹ̑st
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