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6-letter words (9 found)

PASTER,PATERS,PEARST,PETARS,PRATES,REPAST,TAPERS,TRAPES,TRAPSE,

5-letter words (53 found)

APERS,APERT,APRES,APTER,ARETS,ASPER,ASTER,EARST,PARES,PARSE,PARTS,PASTE,PATER,PATES,PEARS,PEART,PEATS,PERST,PERTS,PETAR,PRASE,PRATE,PRATS,PRESA,PREST,RAPES,RATES,REAPS,REAST,RESAT,SEPTA,SPAER,SPARE,SPART,SPATE,SPEAR,SPEAT,SPRAT,STARE,STEAR,STRAE,STRAP,STREP,TAPER,TAPES,TARES,TARPS,TASER,TEARS,TEPAS,TERAS,TRAPE,TRAPS,

4-letter words (67 found)

APER,APES,APSE,APTS,ARES,ARET,ARSE,ARTS,ATES,EARS,EAST,EATS,ERAS,ERST,ETAS,PARE,PARS,PART,PASE,PAST,PATE,PATS,PEAR,PEAS,PEAT,PERT,PEST,PETS,PRAT,RAPE,RAPS,RAPT,RASE,RASP,RAST,RATE,RATS,REAP,REPS,REST,RETS,SATE,SEAR,SEAT,SEPT,SERA,SETA,SPAE,SPAR,SPAT,SPET,STAP,STAR,STEP,TAES,TAPE,TAPS,TARE,TARP,TARS,TASE,TEAR,TEAS,TEPA,TRAP,TRES,TSAR,

3-letter words (44 found)

APE,APT,ARE,ARS,ART,ASP,ATE,ATS,EAR,EAS,EAT,ERA,ERS,EST,ETA,PAR,PAS,PAT,PEA,PER,PES,PET,PRE,PST,RAP,RAS,RAT,REP,RES,RET,SAE,SAP,SAR,SAT,SEA,SER,SET,SPA,TAE,TAP,TAR,TAS,TEA,TES,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AR,AS,AT,EA,ER,ES,ET,PA,PE,RE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 188 words from repast according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of repast

repast

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɑːst/, /-ˈpæst/
  • (General American, Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpæst/, /ɹə-/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːst, -æst
  • Hyphenation: re‧past

Etymology 1

From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

  1. (countable)
    1. (archaic or literary) A meal.
      Synonyms: refection; see also Thesaurus:meal
    2. (obsolete) A period of refreshment or rest.
  2. (uncountable)
    1. (archaic) Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.
    2. (archaic, figuratively) Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.
      Synonym: refection
    3. (obsolete) The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.
      Synonym: refection
Related terms
  • antepast
Translations

Etymology 2

Partly:

  • from Middle English repasten (“(reflexive) to refresh (oneself) with food”) [and other forms], either from repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs); or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”) (see further at etymology 1); and
  • from repast (noun).

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

  1. (transitive)
    1. (archaic) To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
    2. (archaic, figuratively) To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
    3. (also reflexive, obsolete) To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.
Derived terms
  • repaster (obsolete)
  • repasting (noun)
Translations

References

Further reading

  • meal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • repast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Old French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).

Noun

repast oblique singular, m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)

  1. a meal

Descendants

  • → English: repast
  • French: repas

Source: wiktionary.org