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6-letter words (5 found)

FEREST,FESTER,FREEST,FREETS,TERFES,

5-letter words (19 found)

ESTER,FEERS,FERES,FETES,FREES,FREET,FRETS,REEFS,REEST,RESET,SEFER,STEER,STERE,TEERS,TERES,TERFE,TERFS,TERSE,TREES,

4-letter words (29 found)

EFTS,ERES,ERST,FEER,FEES,FEET,FERE,FEST,FETE,FETS,FREE,FRET,REEF,REES,REFS,REFT,REST,RETE,RETS,SEER,SERE,SERF,TEER,TEES,TEFS,TERF,TREE,TREF,TRES,

3-letter words (20 found)

EFS,EFT,ERE,ERF,ERS,EST,FEE,FER,FES,FET,REE,REF,RES,RET,SEE,SER,SET,TEE,TEF,TES,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EF,ER,ES,ET,FE,RE,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 83 words from fester according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fester

fester

Etymology

From Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɛstɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ter

Noun

fester (plural festers)

  1. (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
  2. (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
  3. The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.

Verb

fester (third-person singular simple present festers, present participle festering, simple past and past participle festered)

  1. (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
  2. (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
  3. (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
    • c. 1599–1600, John Marston, Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. As it hath beene Sundry Times Acted, by the Children of Paules, London: Printed [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde, published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i; republished in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. Reprinted from the Original Editions. With Notes, and some Account of His Life and Writings. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1856, →OCLC, page 74:
      For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]

Derived terms

  • festeringly
  • festerment
  • festerous (rare)

Translations

Anagrams

  • Freets, efters, freest, freets

Catalan

Etymology

From festa +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəsˈte]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [fesˈteɾ]

Adjective

fester (feminine festera, masculine plural festers, feminine plural festeres)

  1. festive
    Synonym: festiu
  2. party-loving
    Synonym: festós

Noun

fester m (plural festers, feminine festera)

  1. partygoer
    Synonym: festaire

Noun

fester m (plural festers)

  1. torchiere
    Synonym: teiera

Further reading

  • “fester” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Noun

fester c

  1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

  1. present of feste

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛstɐ

Adjective

fester

  1. inflection of fest:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fester m

  1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

  1. present of feste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse festr, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /¹fɛstər/

Noun

fester f (definite singular festra or festri, indefinite plural festrer, definite plural festrene)

  1. rope to moor boats with
Related terms
  • fast (“fast, firm”)
  • fest (“betrothal”)
  • -fest (“place to moor boats”, used in place names)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

fester f

  1. indefinite plural of fest

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fester

  1. present tense of feste (“to fasten”)

Swedish

Noun

fester

  1. indefinite plural of fest

Source: wiktionary.org