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Definition: TRIST |
TRISTAdjective1. Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. Intransitive & transitive verb1. To trust. Noun1. A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst. 2. A post, or station, in hunting. 3. Trust. |
Date "TRIST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Crosswords: TRIST |
| English words defined with "TRIST": Triste, Tristy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TRIST": Tristy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TRIST" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sorrowful), German (dismal, dreary, dull, miserable, sad, solemn, somber, somberly, sombre), Norwegian (bleak, dismal, drab, dreary, dull, gaunt, miserable, sad, somber, sullen), Romanian (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), Swedish (dreary, dull, frumpish, gloomy, sad, stodgy, suburban, tiresome), Welsh (sad, sorrowful). |
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| "TRIST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "TRIST" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trist | 7 |
rehn trist | 3 |
nicholas trist | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "TRIST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | reménység (trust), bizalom (confidence, credence, credit, dependence, faith, reliance, trust, trustfulness), bús (blue, dejected, disconsolate, dolorous, gloomy, sad, sorry, sullen, tristful), búbánatos (tristful, woeful), bánatos (pained, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isttray | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eiselqwn de eiV thn sunagwghn eparrhsiazeto epi mhnaV treiV dialegomenoV kai peiqwn ta peri thV basileiaV tou qeou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Introgressus autem synagogam cum fiducia loquebatur per tres menses disputans et suadens de regno Dei |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he yede in to the synagoge, and spak with trist thre monethis, disputinge and tretinge of the kingdom of God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he went into the synagoge and behaved him selfe boldely for the space of thre monethes disputynge and gevynge them exhortacions of the kyngdome of God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 19, Verse 8 |
| Albanian | Pastaj ai hyri në sinagogë dhe u foli lirisht njerëzve tre muaj me radhë, duke diskutuar dhe duke i bindur për gjërat e mbretërisë së Perëndisë. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug si Pablo miadto sa sinagoga, ug sulod sa tulo ka bulan siya nagsultihan didto sa walay kokahadlok, nga nangatarungan ug nagpatoo kanila mahitungod sa gingharian sa Dios. |
| Croatian | Onda Pavao uðe u sinagogu te je tri mjeseca hrabro raspravljao i uvjeravao o kraljevstvu Božjem. |
| Danish | Og han gik ind i Synagogen og vidnede frimodigt i tre Måneder, idet han holdt Samtaler og overbeviste om det, som hører til Guds Rige. |
| Dutch | En hij ging in de synagoge, en sprak vrijmoediglijk, drie maanden lang met hen handelende, en hun aanradende de zaken van het Koninkrijk Gods. |
| Finnish | Ja hän meni synagoogaan, ja kolmen kuukauden ajan hän puhui heidän kanssansa rohkeasti ja vakuuttavasti Jumalan valtakunnasta. |
| German | Er ging aber in die Schule und predigte frei drei Monate lang, lehrte und beredete sie vom Reich Gottes. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Selama tiga bulan Paulus terus berbicara dengan berani kepada orang-orang di rumah ibadat dan berdebat dengan mereka untuk meyakinkan mereka tentang bagaimana Allah memerintah sebagai Raja. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Paulus pun masuklah ke dalam rumah sembahyang serta berkata-kata dengan beraninya tiga bulan lamanya, sambil berbicara dan meyakinkan orang tentang kerajaan Allah. |
| Italian | Entrato poi nella sinagoga, vi potè parlare liberamente per tre mesi, discutendo e cercando di persuadere gli ascoltatori circa il regno di Dio. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka tomo ia ki te whare karakia, ka korero maia atu, e toru nga marama i korerorero ai, i kukume ai ki nga mea o te rangatiratanga o te Atua. |
| Norwegian | Han gikk da inn i synagogen og talte frimodig i tre måneder, idet han holdt samtaler med dem og overtydet dem om det som hører Guds rike til. |
| Portuguese | Paulo, entrando na sinagoga, falou ousadamente por espaço de três meses, discutindo e persuadindo acerca do reino de Deus. |
| Rumanian | Kn urmq, Pavel a intrat kn sinagogq, unde vorbea cu kndrqznealq. Timp de trei luni a vorbit cu ei despre lucrurile privitoare la Kmpqrqyia lui Dumnezeu, wi cquta sq knduplece pe cei ce -l ascultau. |
| Shuar | ¶ Tura nuisha menaintiu nantutin Papru Israer-shuar iruntai jeanam Werí Yusa akupeamurin pachis arantutsuk etsermiayi. Túrak Nú aentsun ujaak Yúsnan nekasaiti tu Enentáimtikrarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Durante unos tres meses, entrando en la sinagoga, Pablo predicaba con valentía discutiendo y persuadiendo acerca de las cosas del reino de Dios. |
| Swahili | Kwa muda wa miezi mitatu Paulo alikuwa akienda katika sunagogi, akawa na majadiliano ya kuvutia sana juu ya Ufalme wa Mungu. |
| Swedish | Därefter gick han in i synagogan; och under tre månader samtalade han där, frimodigt och övertygande, med dem om Guds rike. |
| Uma | ¶ Bula-na Paulus hi ngata Efesus toe, hilou oa' -i hi tomi posampayaa to Yahudi. Rala-na tolu mula, mololita-i hante uma ria ka'ekaa' -na, momewai' ngkalolita hante tauna to morumpu hi ree. Natudui' -ra beiwa ohea-na jadi' ntodea-na Alata'ala hi rala Kamagaua' -na, nanotohi nono-ra pai' nabawai-ra bona mepangala' -ra hi Yesus. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TRIST": tristate, triste, tristearin, tristearins, tristeza, tristezas, tristful, tristfully, tristfulness, tristfulnesses, tristich, tristichs, tristimulus. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TRIST": belletrist, centrist, econometrist, metrist, neuropsychiatrist, nonpsychiatrist, optometrist, orthopsychiatrist, pediatrist, photogrammetrist, physiatrist, podiatrist, psychiatrist. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TRIST": belletristic, belletrists, centrists, econometrists, metrists, neuropsychiatrists, nonpsychiatrists, optometrists, orthopsychiatrists, patristic, patristical, patristics, pediatrists, photogrammetrists, physiatrists, podiatrists, psychiatrists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: stir, tits. | |
-2 letters: its, sir, sit, sri, tis, tit. | |
-3 letters: is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: artist, britts, fritts, sitter, strait, strati, strict, stript, thirst, titers, titres, traits, triste. | |
+2 letters: artiest, artiste, artists, astrict, athirst, attires, bistort, bitters, distort, fitters, hitters, intorts, intrust, iratest, jitters, litters, metrist, protist, ratites, rattish, retints, retwist, risotto, ritters, ruttish, sitters, skitter, slitter, spitter, starlit, stinter, straits, stretti, striate, tartish, tastier, territs, testier, thirsts, thirsty, thrifts, tilters, tinters, tipster, titfers, tithers, titters, tourist, transit, tricots, trijets, trisect, tritest, tritons, trivets, tsarist, turbits, turista, twister, tzarist, yttrias. | |
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