vest

vest is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
2. noun. Any outer covering; array; garb.
3. noun. Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
4. noun. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
5. noun. To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
6. noun. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
7. noun. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
8. noun. To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
9. intransitive verb. To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
10. noun. a collarless men's undergarment for the upper part of the body

    Synonyms: singlet, undershirt

11. noun. a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat

    Synonyms: waistcoat

12. verb. clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes

    Synonyms: robe

13. verb. clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
14. verb. become legally vested

    "The property vests in the trustees"

15. verb. place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons

    "She vested her vast fortune in her two sons"

16. verb. provide with power and authority

    "They vested the council with special rights"

    Synonyms: enthrone, invest

Synonyms

singlet, undershirt, waistcoat, robe, enthrone, invest

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in vest:

vets

Common word forms

vests, vestal, vested, vester, vesting, vestless, vestment

Words from these letters

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