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- [pest]
- /pɛst/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pest]
- /pɛst/
Definitions of pest word
- noun pest a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest) 1
- noun pest insect 1
- noun pest unwanted animal 1
- noun pest annoying person 1
- countable noun pest Pests are insects or small animals which damage crops or food supplies. 0
- countable noun pest You can describe someone, especially a child, as a pest if they keep bothering you. 0
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Origin of pest
First appearance:
before 1545 One of the 30% oldest English words
First recorded in 1545-55, pest is from the Latin word pestis plague
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Parts of speech for Pest
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pest popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pest usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pest
noun pest
- ant — Ants are small crawling insects that live in large groups.
- antagonizer — a person who antagonizes people, or provokes hostility: The leader was an antagonizer of the peasantry. Compare antagonist.
- ants — any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.
- aphid — Aphids are very small insects which live on plants and suck their juices.
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
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