Define:Wast
English eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- Rhymes: -ɒst
Verb eedit
wast
- Template:Archaic Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
- "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
- 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),
- Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
- Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
- 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99
- Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
- Yea, one wast thou with me
- That once of old.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
References eedit
- “wast” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “wast” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
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Dutch eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- /ʋɑst/
Verb eedit
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Scots eedit
Etymology eedit
Scots form of English west.
Adverb eedit
Wast (comparative mair wast, superlative maist wast)
Preposition eedit
Wast
Adjective eedit
Wast (comparative mair Wast, superlative maist Wast)