Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hoast

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hoast
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

verb

Intransitive verb

noun

Obsolete form of host.

Obsolete

verb

Obsolete form of host.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"in the winter time, right in the middle of the Lord's Prayer, maybe, you'd hear an outbreak of hoasts fit to lift off the roof [...]."
"After that Nero had raygned thirtene yeares: Otho and Galba one yeare, and ſix monethes: Veſpaſianus was counted a potent Pꝛince in Iudæa, amonge the armyes appoynted againſt the Ievves, and being pꝛoclaymed Emperour of the hoaſt that there was, foꝛthe with he is ſent to Rome, committing vnto his ſonne Titus the warres, in hande agaynſte the Ievves."

Etymology

From Middle English *host, *hoste, from Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), akin to Icelandic hósti, Swedish hosta, Danish hoste (“a cough”). More at whoost.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *host, hósti, *hosten, hósta, *hwōstāną

Usage

Inflected Forms

hoasts (plural) haust (alternative) host (alternative) hoasts (present, singular) hoasting (participle, present) hoasted (participle, past) hoasted (past)

Questions

What does hoast mean?: A cough.
Where does hoast come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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