vest

Meaning

Noun

1. A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
2. A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
3. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
4. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
5. A vestment.
6. Clothing generally; array; garb.
7. A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.

Verb

1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
2. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.
3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.
4. To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.
5. (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.
6. To become vested, to become permanent.
7. (obsolete) To invest; to put.

Concepts

vest

waistcoat

undershirt

shirt

singlet

invest

jacket

weskit

robe

cardigan

confer

clothe

T-shirt

enthrone

jersey

attire

dress

endue

tank top

blouse

bestow

authorize

belong

put on

wear

sleeveless shirt

sleeveless vest

banyan

pull-over

sweater

undervest

underwear

half-sweater

commit

confide

consign

entrust

intrust

repose

trust

costume

garb

rig

beset

enclose

encompass

environ

gird

indue

shut in

surround

award

gilet

camisole

shimmy

Livonian

jerkin

stomacher

bundle up

dress up

wrap up

chapport

lassinʼ

wifebeater

muscle shirt

sleeveless T-shirt

pullover

man's sleeveless jacket

give to

sleeveless jacket

tricot

etc

pocket

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɛst/

Etymology

From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit वस्त्र (vastra) and Spanish vestir.