vest

English

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Etymology

From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛst/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

vest (plural vests)

1. (Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.

   Synonym: (Britain) waistcoat

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. (British) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.

   Synonyms: singlet, (US) tank top, (US) undershirt

3. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
4. 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?

5. A vestment.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite:

     In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

6. Clothing generally; array; garb.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, (classified under Inscriptions)

     Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

7. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

Hyponyms

• (sleeveless outergarment): safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)

1. (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
   • 1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:

     Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.

   • 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid:

     With ether vested, and a purple sky.

2. 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

   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, To Mr. Howard - An Ode:

     Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.

3. 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.

   • 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: , London: Awnsham Churchill, , →OCLC:
     , Book I

     Empire and dominion was vested in him.

4. (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

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     For the right of the crown vests […] upon his heir.

5. (law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.

   Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.

6. (financial, intransitive) 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.

7. (obsolete) To invest; to put.

   to vest money in goods, land, or houses

Further reading

• “vest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “vest”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “vest”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ETVs, EVTs, vets

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛst/,

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, not used in plural form)

1. the west

Inflection

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sydvest

Adverb

vest

1. toward the west, westwards

Etymology 2

From French veste.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, plural indefinite veste)

1. A vest.

Inflection

References

• “vest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛst/

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• Hyphenation: vest
• Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vest, veste. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

vest f (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. fortified wall, city wall
2. moat
3. boulevard

Synonyms

• veste

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French veste, from Italian veste, from Latin vestis.

Noun

vest n (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. vest, cardigan, waistcoat

Derived terms

• zwemvest

Latvian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *westéi. Cognate with Lithuanian vesti, Polish wieść, Russian вести (vesti), Slovene vesti.

Verb

vest (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present vedu, ved, ved, past vedu)

1. to lead

Conjugation

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish vest, from Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

Noun

vest n (abbreviation V) (indeclinable)

2. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• øst

Derived terms

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Vest (klesplagg)

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Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French and Italian .

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vester, definite plural vestene)

2. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.

Noun

vest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)

1. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• aust

Derived terms

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Klesplagget vest

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Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French and Italian.

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vestar, definite plural vestane)

1. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Old Swedish

Verb

vēst

1. second-person present indicative of vita

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German West.

Noun

vest n (uncountable)

1. west

   Synonyms: apus, asfințit, occident

Declension

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Native Romanian
miazănoapte apus răsărit miazăzi
Borrowed from French/German
nord-vest nord nord-est vest est sud-vest sud sud-est

Romansch

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Noun

vest m

1. west

Antonyms

• ost
• oriaint

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sidvest

Related terms

• nord
• sid
• nordost
• sidost

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vijȇst (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věstь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *waid-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋêːst/
• Hyphenation: vest

Noun

vȇst f (Cyrillic spelling ве̑ст)

1. report, news

   Da li si mu kazala vesti? ― Did you tell him the news?

Declension

Derived terms

• pȍvēst

References

• “vest” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *věstь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋéːst/

Noun

vẹ̑st f

1. conscience

Inflection

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