GESTE

Meaning of GESTE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

also gest ˈjest

Etymology: Middle English geste, from Anglo-French, from Latin gestus, from gerere

Date: 14th century

1. archaic : deportment

2. archaic : gesture

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

GESTE — also gest noun Etymology: Middle English ~, from Anglo-French, from Latin gestus, from gerere Date: 14th century deportment , gesture
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GESTE — I. variant of gest II. noun also gest ˈjest ( -s ) Etymology: Middle French geste, from Latin gestus, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GESTE — (v. i.) To tell stories or gests.
Английский словарь Webster
GESTE — ( v. i. ) To tell stories or gests.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GESTE — /jest/ , n. gest.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GESTE — n. story, tale; deed, act; behavior; gesture
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GESTE — vi to tell stories or gests.
Webster English vocab
GESTE — [geste] also gest n [MF geste, fr. L gestus, fr. gerere] (14c) 1 archaic: deportment 2. archaic: gesture
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GESTE — n. beau geste chanson de geste chansons de geste beau gestes beaux gestes
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
GESTE — n. Variant: also gest Pronunciation: ' jest Function: noun Etymology: Middle English geste, from Anglo-French, from Latin gestus, from gerere …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
CHANSON DE GESTE — noun (plural chansons de geste) Etymology: French, literally, song of heroic deeds Date: 1833 any of several Old French epic …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CHANSON DE GESTE — Any of several Old French epic poems that form the core of the Charlemagne legends. More than 80 chansons de …
Английский словарь Британика
CHANSON DE GESTE — -d(ə)zhest noun ( plural chansons de geste “, -ōⁿzdəzh-) Etymology: French, literally, song of heroic deeds : any of several …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHANSON DE GESTE — /shahonn sawonn deuh zhest"/ , pl. chansons de geste /shahonn sawonn deuh zhest"/ . (in medieval French literature) an epic …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHANSON DE GESTE — noun ( plural chansons de geste same ) Etymology: French, literally, song of heroic deeds Date: 1833 : any of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CHANSON DE GESTE — [ ˌʃɒ~sɒ~ də'ʒɛst ] ■ noun ( plural chansons de geste pronunciation same) a French historical verse romance of the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
CHANSON DE GESTE — [chanson de geste] n, pl chansons de geste [F, lit., song of heroic deeds] (1868): any of several Old French …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BEAU GESTE — [beau geste] n, pl beaux gestes or beau gestes [F, lit., beautiful gesture] (1914) 1: a graceful or magnanimous gesture …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHANSON DE GESTE — (French song of deeds) any of the Old French epic poems forming the core of the Charlemagne legends. More than …
Britannica English vocabulary
BEAU GESTE — beau geste BrE AmE ˌbəʊ ˈʒest AmE ˌboʊ- —French [ bo ʒɛst \]
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CHANSON DE GESTE — Any of several Old French epic poems that form the core of the Charlemagne legends. More than 80 chansons de …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GESTURE — geste
English interlingue dictionary
AIR — aere; (mus.) arie, melodie; (appearance) aspecte, aparentie; (manner) geste, maniere. ~TIGHT: hermetic, /ínpenetrabil; v. aerar, ventilar
English interlingue dictionary
TROUVÈRE — noun see: troubadour Date: 1795 one of a school of poets who flourished from the 11th to the 14th centuries …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
JEST — I. ˈjest noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English geste, from Old French geste, jeste, from Latin gesta deeds, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GEST — I. noun or geste ˈjest ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English gest, jest, geste, jeste deed, action, story, tale — …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GEST — /jest/ , n. 1. a story or tale. 2. a deed or exploit. 3. Archaic. a metrical romance or history. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GEST — or geste ˈjest Etymology: Middle English geste — more at jest Date: 13th century 1. : a tale of adventures …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GEST — [gest] or geste n [ME geste--more at jest] (13c) 1: a tale of adventures; esp: a romance in verse 2: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
OGIER THE DANE — French Ogier De Danemarche, Danish Holger Danske an important character in the French medieval epic poems called chansons de geste. …
Britannica English vocabulary
GUILLAUME D'ORANGE — central hero of some 24 French epic poems, or chansons de geste, of the 12th and 13th centuries. The poems …
Britannica English vocabulary
GAUTIER, LON — born Aug. 8, 1832, Le Havre, France died Aug. 25, 1897, Paris in full mile-thodore-lon Gautier literary historian who revived …
Britannica English vocabulary
DOON DE MAYENCE — hero baron of the medieval epic poems in Old French known as chansons de geste, which together form the core …
Britannica English vocabulary

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