'Gest' definitions:
Definition of 'Gest'
From: GCIDE
- Gest \Gest\, n. A guest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gest'
From: GCIDE
- Gest \Gest\, n. [OF. geste exploit. See Jest.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] --Mede. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Gesture; bearing; deportment. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gest'
From: GCIDE
- Gest \Gest\, n. [Cf. Gist a resting place.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] --Kersey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. [Obs.] --Hanmer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- action,
- adventure,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- apologue,
- aristeia,
- bedtime story,
- blow,
- bold stroke,
- coup,
- dealings,
- deed,
- detective story,
- doing,
- doings,
- effort,
- emprise,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- exploit,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fairy tale,
- fait accompli,
- fantasy,
- feat,
- fiction,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- ghost story,
- go,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- heroic act,
- horse opera,
- job,
- legend,
- love story,
- maneuver,
- Marchen,
- measure,
- move,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nursery tale,
- operation,
- overt act,
- parable,
- passage,
- performance,
- proceeding,
- production,
- res gestae,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- shocker,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- step,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- suspense story,
- thing,
- thing done,
- thriller,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- venture,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- whodunit,
- work,
- work of fiction,
- works