Gust

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English

Noun

Gust (plural Gusts)
  1. A strong, abrupt rush of wind.
  2. Any rush or outburst (of water, emotion etc.).

Verb

Gust (third-person singular simple present Gusts, present participle Gusting, simple past and past participle Gusted)

  1. (intransitive) To blow in gusts.

Noun

Gust (uncountable)
  1. (archaic) The physiological faculty of taste.
  2. Relish, enjoyment, appreciation.
    • 1942: ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Sava with solemn gust. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 1050)

Adjectives for Gust

chill; fitful; ; unusual; violent; fierce; stormy; buffeting; extreme; passionate; sudden; scented; eddying; angry.

Thesaurus

access, affection, aftertaste, alacrity, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, aroma, attribute, avidity, avidness, badge, bitter, blast, blaze, blow, brand, breathless impatience, breeze, burst, cachet, cast, character, characteristic, cheerful readiness, configuration, convulsion, crush, cut, cyclone, differentia, differential, distinctive feature, eagerness, earmark, elan, eruption, explosion, feature, figure, fit, flare-up, flavor, flaw, flurry, fondness, forwardness, gale, gusto, hallmark, hurricane, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, impatience, impress, impression, increase, index, individualism, infatuation, irruption, keen desire, keenness, keynote, life, likes, liking, lineaments, liveliness, love, mannerism, mark, marking, mold, nature, odor, outbreak, outburst, palate, paroxysm, particularity, passion, peculiarity, promptness, property, puff, quality, quickness, quirk, readiness, relish, sally, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, scud, seal, seizure, shape, singularity, smack, sour, spasm, specialty, spirit, stamp, stomach, storm, surge, sweet, taint, tang, taste, tempest, token, tongue, tooth, tornado, trait, trick, upheaval, verve, vitality, vivacity, weakness, whirlwind, wind, wind gust, zest, zestfulness

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɡʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst

Etymology 1

Apparently from Old Norse gustr, though not recorded before Shakespeare.

Etymology 2

From Latin gustus ‘taste’.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gustus.

Noun

Gust m. (plural gustos)

  1. taste

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin gustus.

Noun

Gust n. (plural gusturi)

  1. taste

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Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin (mensis) augustus.

Noun

Gust

  1. (popular, rare) August

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɡûːst/

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ.

Adjective

gȗst (definite gȗstī, comparative gȕšćī, Cyrillic spelling гу̑ст)

  1. dense

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