"þester" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈθiːstər/ [Early-Middle-English], /ˈθuːstər/ [Early-Middle-English], /ˈθeːstər/, /ˈθɛstər/
Etymology: From Old English þīestre. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|þīestre}} Old English þīestre Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} þester, {{enm-adj}} þester
  1. Dark, gloomy; not providing or giving off much light or brightness. Tags: Early-Middle-English Categories (topical): Colors, Light
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-adj-1wQktLZO Disambiguation of Colors: 32 12 4 9 21 9 7 6 Disambiguation of Light: 35 7 5 9 27 9 4 3
  2. Black or blackish; darkly coloured or shaded, swarthy. Tags: Early-Middle-English
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-adj-xx~ayXuD
  3. (rare) Immoral, salacious religiously ignorant, of laity. Tags: Early-Middle-English, rare
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-adj-3iqpJIMR Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 25 19 32 2 7 10 2 3 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 18 33 3 7 11 2 3
  4. (rare) Incomprehensible, vague, or lacking detail. Tags: Early-Middle-English, rare Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-adj-zuBO6jsf Disambiguation of Religion: 0 0 3 73 0 0 24 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: þeostre, þuster, þyster, thestur, thestir, thester Related terms: þesternesse, þestren, þestri
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈθiːstər/ [Early-Middle-English], /ˈθuːstər/ [Early-Middle-English], /ˈθeːstər/, /ˈθɛstər/
Etymology: From Old English þīestre. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|þīestre}} Old English þīestre Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} þester, {{enm-noun|-}} þester (uncountable)
  1. The state or quality of being dark; lack of light or brightness. Tags: Early-Middle-English, uncountable
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-noun-W4D7xz6C
  2. Misery, despair, wanhope. Tags: Early-Middle-English, uncountable
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-noun-dW9gMDFt
  3. (rare) Religious torment or torture; the fires of hell. Tags: Early-Middle-English, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-noun-IfuiFa-L
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: þeostre, þuster, þyster, thestur, thestir, thester
Etymology number: 1

Verb [Middle English]

Etymology: From Old English þēostrian, þȳstrian. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|þēostrian}} Old English þēostrian, {{m|ang|þȳstrian}} þȳstrian Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} þester
  1. Alternative form of þestren Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: þestren
    Sense id: en-þester-enm-verb-Z4vqWpU0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: þeostre, þuster, þyster, thestur, thestir, thester
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.