gost

gost (plural gosts)

1. Obsolete spelling of ghost.
   • 1600, Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation‎^[1], reprint edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 68:

     ... may non evylle gost entre ne come unto the place that it is inne.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gost”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• GOTs, GTOs, gots, stog, togs

From Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

• gast, gaast, goost, goste

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːst/
• Rhymes: -ɔːst

gost (plural gostes)

1. a spiritual being; angel, devil, spirit; soul of a dead person
   • 1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:

     This nyght my faderes gost Hath in my slep so sore me tormented.

     This night my father's ghost has in my sore sleep, so tormented me

   • 15th c., “Thomas Indie [Thomas of India]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 346, lines 212–213:

     The gost went to hell a pase / whils the cors lay slayn,
     And broght the sawles from sathanas / for which he suffred payn

     The spirit went to hell while the body lay slain and brought the souls from Satan, for which he suffered pain.

   • 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:

     The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen.

     The deed being counteracted, evil spirits being banished.

2. the Holy Ghost
   • Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
3. A villain, scoundrel; a devil incarnate; a wicked-looking creature
   • In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
4. The soul of man, spiritual nature
   • Ȝe cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
   • Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
5. A spiritual force or insight, a gift of prophecy
   • A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
6. A breath, blowing, wind; God's breath, a spiritual wind; the blowing of storm
   • Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500

• English: ghost
• Scots: gaist, gast, ghaist
• Yola: gaast

• “gōst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

gost

1. alternative form of gorst

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus. Numerous cognates include Catalan gust, Italian gusto and French goût.

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gost m (plural gosts)

1. taste (of food, drink, etc.)

• gostós

• tastar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

• IPA^(key): /ɡôːst/, /ɡôst/

gȏst m anim (Cyrillic spelling го̑ст)

1. guest

   Svakog gosta tri dana dosta. - [For] every guest three days is enough. (proverb)

• “gost”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 1, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 542
• “gost”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *gostь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ́st/

gȍst m anim

1. guest

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡóːst/

gọ̑st (comparative gostȇjši, superlative nȁjgostȇjši)

1. dense

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• “gost”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “gost”, in Termania, Amebis
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gost m (plural gest)

1. guest

Compare Persian گوشت (gušt).

gost

1. meat