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Definition: Blest |
BlestAdjective1. Highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Blest I'll be blest if I do it. I am resolved not to do it. A euphemism for curst. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: BlestSynonym: blessed (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cursed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pleasure | Happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water, happy as a clam, happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; Verb: joyful; (in spirits); hedonic. |
Possession | Adjective: possessing; Verb: worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of; usucapient; endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blest |
| English words defined with "blest": Unblest. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blest": BED-MAKER ♦ Forgive, blest Shade ♦ Milk and Honey ♦ Yesterday. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blest": Bless. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blest" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (blast of wind, draught, gust). |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! |
Robert Montgomery | Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. |
Virgil | That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest. |
William Cowper | It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame To stay the shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again. Baruch Arnegriff It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors. |
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| "Blest" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Blest" is used about 16 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blest": blest with ♦ i am blest if i know what to do! ♦ i'll be blest if i know what to do! ♦ the isles of the blest. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
blest | 13 |
alberto blest gana | 13 |
blest clothing | 4 |
blest be the tie that bind | 3 |
blest we | 3 |
blest are they | 3 |
alberto blest de gana novelas | 3 |
blest boutique | 2 |
blest tie | 2 |
blest gana | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | مبارک (Auspicious, Happy), سعید (Auspicious, Happy, Jovial), خوشبخت (Provident), خجسته (Auspicious). (various references) | |
French | heureux. (various references) | |
German | gesegnet (blessed). (various references) | |
Greek | αόρ. του bless. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megszentel (consecrate, hallow, sanctify, to bless, to consecrate, to hallow, to sanctificate, to sanctify), megáld (to bless, to solemnize, to visit), imád (adore, love, to adore, to bless, to worship, worship), áld (bless, to bless). (various references) | |
Italian | benedetto (blessed). (various references) | |
Manx | sheeant (blessed, hallowed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bendito (benedictory, blessed, celebrated, famous, illustrious), bem-aventurado (blessed, blissful). (various references) | |
Romanian | binecuvântat (blessed, happy), trecut şi participiu trecut de la bless. (various references) | |
Spanish | bienaventurado (blessed), bendito (blessed, hallowed), beato (blessed, churchy, goodygoody, pietistic, pious, sanctimonious), santo (blessed, confessor, holy, holy man, saint, sainted, saintly, st.), pret y pp de bless, maldito (accursed, accurst, beastly, blankety, blanky, blasted, blessed, blinking, cursed, damn, damned, darn, dratted, hexes, pesky, ruddy), feliz (blessed, blissful, felicitous, happy, lucky, slaphappy), dotado (accomplished, blessed, gifted, talented). (various references) | |
Turkish | neşe dolu, mübarek (blessed, holy, sacred, saintlike, saintly, venerable), kusal. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | benedicta, benedictae, benedicte, benedicti, benedictique, benedicto, benedictorum, benedictum, benedictus, Cnicus benedictus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 50 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exhgagen de autouV exw ewV eiV bhqanian kai eparaV taV ceiraV autou euloghsen autouV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Eduxit autem eos foras in Bethaniam et elevatis manibus suis benedixit eis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice he gelædde hig ut on beþaniam and he bletsode hig his handum up ahafenum. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he ledde hem forth in to Betanye, and whanne his hondis weren lift vp, he blesside hem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he ledde the out into Bethany and lyfte vp his hondes and blest them. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he led them out as far as to Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 24, Verse 50 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Unya iyang gidala sila ngadto sa gawas hangtud sa Betania, ug sa naisa niya ang iyang mga kamot, iyang gipanalanginan sila. |
| Chinese | 耶 穌 他 們 到 伯 大 尼 的 對 面 、 就 舉 手 給 他 們 祝 福 。 |
| Croatian | Zatim ih izvede do Betanije, podiže ruke pa ih blagoslovi. |
| Danish | Men han førte dem ud til hen imod Bethania, og han opløftede sine Hænder og velsignede dem. |
| Dutch | En Hij leidde hen buiten tot aan Bethanie, en Zijn handen opheffende, zegende Hij hen. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän vei heidät pois, lähes Betaniaan asti, ja nosti kätensä ja siunasi heidät. |
| French | Il les conduisit jusque vers Béthanie, et, ayant levé les mains, il les bénit. |
| German | Er führte sie aber hinaus bis gen Bethanien und hob die Hände auf und segnete sie. |
| Hungarian | Kivivé pedig õket Bethániáig; és felemelvén az õ kezeit, megáldá õket. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah itu Yesus membawa mereka ke luar kota sampai Betania. Di situ Ia mengangkat tangan-Nya, lalu memberkati mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Yesus pun membawa mereka itu ke luar dekat Baitani, lalu mengangkat tangan-Nya memberkati mereka itu. |
| Italian | Poi li condusse fuori verso Bet nia e, alzate le mani, li benedisse. |
| Maori | ¶ Na arahina ana ratou e ia ki waho, ki Petani, na kua ara ona ringa, whakapaingia ana ratou e ia. |
| Norwegian | Og han førte dem ut imot Betania, og han løftet op sine hender og velsignet dem; |
| Portuguese | Então os levou fora, até Betânia; e levantando as mãos, os abençoou. |
| Rumanian | El i -a dus afarq pknq spre Betania. Wi -a ridicat mknile, wi i -a binecuvkntat. |
| Shuar | ¶ Nuyá Jesus Jerusarén péprunmaya Júkiar Petania péprunam ejeniarmiayi. Tura nui ni uweje Takuí, "Yus Yáinmakarti" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha akawaongoza nje ya mji hadi Bethania, akainua mikono yake juu, akawabariki. |
| Swedish | Sedan förde han dem ut till Betania; och där lyfte han upp sina händer och välsignade dem. |
| Uma | ¶ Oti toe, Yesus mpo'ema' -ra hilou hi mali ngata Yerusalem, mohu' hi ngata Betania. Na'ongko' pale-na pai' nagane' -ramo. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "blest": ablest, capablest, feeblest, humblest, nimblest, noblest, possiblest, sensiblest, stablest, unblest, unstablest. (additional references) | |
Words containing "blest": cobblestone, cobblestoned, cobblestones. (additional references) | |
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"Blest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: belost, Biest, Biesty, blarst, blees, Bleet, bles, blets, Bletso, blewt, blez, blist, blizt, Blpes, blusty, byest, glest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blest" (pronounced ble"st) |
| 5 | b l e" s t | blessed. |
| 4 | -l e" s t | Celeste, coalesced, lest, molest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, abreast, acquiesced, addressed, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, breast, chest, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, impressed, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, messed, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: belts, blets. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bels, belt, best, bets, blet, lest, lets, tels. | |
-2 letters: bel, bet, els, let, sel, set, tel. | |
-3 letters: be, el, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ablest, betels, bleats, blites, bluest, bluets, botels, bustle, butles, stable, sublet, subtle, tables. | |
+2 letters: ablates, albites, astilbe, baldest, ballets, bastile, battles, beastly, beetles, belters, bestial, bethels, billets, bilsted, blasted, blaster, blastie, blister, blitzes, blivets, bluster, boatels, boldest, boletes, boletus, bolster, bolters, bottles, bristle, bullets, bustled, bustles, butlers, cablets, giblets, goblets, labrets, lobster, noblest, oblates, riblets, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, stubble, stumble, sublate, sublets, subtile, subtler, sunbelt, tablets, trebles, tubules, tumbles, unbelts, unblest. | |
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