lust
Meaning
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- (masculine) lust, desire (especially sexual, but also more generally)
- (masculine) object of desire
- (masculine) pleasure, joy
- (masculine, plural-normally) benefit, advantage
- (masculine) a taste for, strong tendency to
Concepts
sexual pleasure
covetise
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lʏst/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.
New
lusten
<tabs><tab title="Noun"><p>plural of lust</p></tab><tab title="Verb"><p><ol><li>(archaic, intransitive) to please</li><li>(transitive) to find tasty, appreciate food</li><li>(transitive) to eat, have on the diet</li><li>(transitive) (by extension) to appreciate, dig, like</li><li>(intransitive) to lust, have or indulge a craving</li></ol></p></tab></tabs>
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