vest

See also: Vest, věst, vést, and vešt

English

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vest

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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, [unnamed poem] (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

• ballistic vest
• bulletproof vest
• close to one's vest
• close to the vest
• keep one's cards close to one's vest
• life vest
• more life in a tramp's vest
• Posey vest
• ranger vest
• rash vest
• sleeves from one's vest
• sobre-vest
• string vest
• suicide vest
• sweater vest
• tech vest
• vest buster
• vest date
• vest in interest
• vest pocket
• vest-pocket
• yellow vest

 

Related terms

• invest
• vest frottoir
• vestibule
• vestment
• vesture
• wear

 

Translations

loose robe worn in Middle East and elsewhere in Arab world

garment worn over a shirt

Aleut: ziilitax̂ Arabic: Egyptian Arabic: چيليه m (jiléh) (from French) Hijazi: سديري m (sidēri) Armenian: ժիլետ (hy) (žilet) Azerbaijani: jilet (az) Belarusian: камізэ́лька f (kamizélʹka) Bulgarian: жиле́тка (bg) f (žilétka) Catalan: armilla (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 坎肩 (zh) (kǎnjiān), 背心 (zh) (bèixīn) Czech: vesta (cs) f Dutch: vest (nl) Esperanto: veŝto Finnish: liivi (fi) French: gilet (fr) m Georgian: ჟილეტი (žileṭi) German: Weste (de) f, Gilet (de) n (regional, archaic) Greek: γιλέκο (el) n (giléko) Hungarian: mellény (hu) Icelandic: vesti n Irish: veist f Italian: panciotto (it) m, gilè (it) m, corpetto (it) m Japanese: チョッキ (ja) (chokki), ベスト (ja) (besuto) Korean: 조끼 (jokki) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: êlek (ku) m, çoxik (ku) m Macedonian: е́лек m (élek) Maltese: sidrija f Navajo: chaléego Persian: ژیلت (fa) (žilet) Plautdietsch: Wast f Polish: kamizelka (pl) f, bezrękawnik (pl) m Portuguese: colete (pt) m Russian: жиле́т (ru) m (žilét), безрука́вка (ru) f (bezrukávka), жиле́тка (ru) f (žilétka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пр̀слук m Roman: pr̀sluk (sh) m Slovak: vesta f Spanish: chaleco (es) m, chalequillo m (Southern Spain, especially Seville - in this city, "chaleco" means "sweater" or "jumper") Swedish: väst (sv) c Tatar: көрти (körti) Turkish: yelek (tr) Ukrainian: жиле́т m (žylét) Vietnamese: áo gi lê, gi-lê Volapük: jilät (vo) Yup'ik: silin

garment worn under a shirt — see also singlet,‎ undershirt

Arabic: صُدَيْرِيّ m (ṣudayriyy) Bulgarian: фланелка f (flanelka) Catalan: samarreta (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: tílko (cs) n, nátělník (cs) m Esperanto: subĉemizo Finnish: aluspaita (fi) French: tricot de corps (fr) m Georgian: პერანგი (ka) (ṗerangi), მაისური (maisuri) German: Unterhemd (de) n Alemannic German: Liibli n Greek: φανέλα (el) f (fanéla) Hungarian: trikó (hu) Icelandic: nærbolur m Indonesian: singlet (id) m Italian: canottiera (it) f Macedonian: потко́шула f (potkóšula), до́лна ма́ица f (dólna máica) Malay: singlet Maltese: flokk ta’ taħt m Maori: hingareti Norwegian: Bokmål: trøye m or f Nynorsk: trøye f Polish: podkoszulek (pl) m, podkoszulka (pl) f Portuguese: regata (pt) f Russian: ма́йка (ru) f (májka) Scottish Gaelic: fo-lèine f Spanish: camiseta de tirantes (es) Swedish: linne (sv) n Tamil: please add this translation if you can

sleeveless top with identifying colours or logos

Catalan: samarreta (ca) f Finnish: liivi (fi), tunnusliivi Italian: canottiera (it) f Russian: ма́йка (ru) f (májka)

any sleeveless outer garment

Chinese: Hokkien: 䘥仔 (zh-min-nan) (kah-á) Mandarin: 馬甲／马甲 (zh) (mǎjiǎ) Finnish: liivi (fi); turvaliivi, huomioliivi Italian: giubbetto m, giubbotto (it) m, giacchetta f, giubbino m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: нымша (nymşa) Maori: kahutumu Russian: безрука́вка (ru) f (bezrukávka), жиле́т (ru) m (žilét)

confer/give property or power

German: verleihen (de), übergeben (de) Italian: investitura (it) f

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German: (please verify) Weste (de) f

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, vets, EVTs, TVEs

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛst/, [ʋɛsd̥]

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

common gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vest	vesten
genitive	vests	vestens

Declension of vest

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

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vest	vesten	veste	vestene
genitive	vests	vestens	vestes	vestenes

Declension of vest

References

• “vest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛst/

• Audio:

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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

German

Adjective

vest

1. Obsolete spelling of fest.

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

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		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

conjugation of vest

Derived terms

• aizvest
• atvest
• ievest
• uzvest

 

Norwegian Bokmål

vest

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

• nordvest
• sørvest
• Vest-Afrika
• Vest-Sahara
• vestafrikansk
• vesteuropeisk
• vestfra
• vestgoter
• Vestindia
• vestindisk
• vestkyst
• Vestlandet
• vestlending
• vestlig
• vestover
• vestside

 

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vest

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Vest (klesplagg)

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French [Term?] and Italian [Term?].

Noun

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

2. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Norwegian Nynorsk

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vest

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

vest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)

1. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• aust

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sørvest
• Vest-Afrika
• Vest-Sahara
• vestafrikansk
• vesteuropeisk
• vestindisk
• vestkyst
• Vestlandet
• vestlending
• vestre
• vestside

 

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Klesplagget vest

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) vest	vestul
genitive/dative	(unui) vest	vestului
vocative	vestule

declension of vest (singular only)

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

	singular	plural
nominative	vȇst	vesti
genitive	vesti	véstī
dative	vesti	vesti
accusative	vest	vesti
vocative	vesti	vesti
locative	vesti	vestima
instrumental	vešću / vesti	vestima

Declension of vest

Derived terms

• pȍvēst

References

• “vest”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *věstь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋéːst/

Noun

vẹ̑st f

1. conscience

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, i-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	vést
gen. sing.	vestí
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	vést	vestí	vestí
genitive (rodȋlnik)	vestí	vestí	vestí
dative (dajȃlnik)	vésti	vestéma	vestém
accusative (tožȋlnik)	vést	vestí	vestí
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	vésti	vestéh	vestéh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	vestjó	vestéma	vestmí