list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭst
ipa: /lɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: Liszt
Etymology: From Middle English listen, list, liste, leste, lesten (“to choose, desire, wish (to do something)”), from Old English lystan, from Proto-West Germanic *lustijan, from Proto-Germanic *lustijaną, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (“pleasure”).
The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian läste (“to wish for, desire, crave”), West Frisian lêste (“to like, desire”), Dutch lusten (“to appreciate, like; to lust”), German lüsten, gelüsten (“to desire, want, crave”), Danish lyste (“to desire, feel like, want”), Faroese lysta (“to desire”).
The noun sense is from the verb, or from Middle English list, liste, lest, leste (“desire, wish; craving, longing; enjoyment, joy, pleasure”), which is derived from Middle English listen, list (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 24:
english: I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
translation: I know, [she talks] too much: / I find that, when I have desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit, / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
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glosses: Desire, inclination.
Synonyms: word: list
Hyponyms: word: access control list
word: adjacency list
word: alist
word: A-list
word: A list
word: allowlist
word: association list
word: backlist
word: bigot list
word: bill
word: binnacle list
word: blacklist
word: B-list
word: blocklist
word: booklist
word: bucket list
word: buddy list
word: bullet list
word: bulleted list
word: catalog
word: catalogue
word: checklist
word: Christmas list
word: civil list
word: class list
word: C-list
word: clout list
word: codelist
word: concordance
word: controlled vocabulary
word: dean's list
word: decklist
word: definition list
word: denylist
word: directory
word: disabled list
word: display list
word: distribution list
word: D-list
word: dream list
word: dropdown list
word: drop-down list
word: droplist
word: edge list
word: e-list
word: email list
word: enumeration
word: fair list
word: finderlist
word: flag list
word: free list
word: frequency list
word: friends list
word: frontlist
word: graylist
word: greylist
word: grocery list
word: guestlist
word: handlist
word: hit list
word: honey do list
word: honeydew list
word: hotlist
word: index
word: itemization
word: inventory
word: jump list
word: laundry list
word: law list
word: life list
word: linked list
word: linklist
word: listicle
word: litany
word: longlist
word: mailing list
word: manifest
word: menu
word: multilist
word: muster roll
word: naughty list
word: navy list
word: netlist
word: no fly list
word: nodelist
word: numbered list
word: offlist
word: off-list
word: party list
word: picklist
word: playlist
word: price list
word: prize list
word: pull list
word: punch list
word: reading list
word: roll
word: Red List
word: reference list
word: register
word: registry
word: reserved list
word: retired list
word: roster
word: schedule
word: set list
word: setlist
word: shit list
word: shitlist
word: shopping list
word: short list
word: shortlist
word: shot list
word: shotlist
word: sick list
word: skip list
word: snagging list
word: stock list
word: stocklist
word: stop list
word: superlist
word: Swadesh list
word: swaplist
word: tasklist
word: thesaurus
word: tier list
word: to-do list
word: toplist
word: tracklist
word: transfer list
word: unfair list
word: userlist
word: Verlet list
word: waiting list
word: waitlist
word: wait-list
word: want list
word: wanted list
word: watch list
word: watchlist
word: white list
word: whitelist
word: wine list
word: winelist
word: wish list
word: wishlist
word: word list
word: wordlist
word: worklist
word: Z-list
Meronyms: word: bullet point
word: item
word: listing
Derived terms: listful
listless
Related terms: word: enumerated articles
word: listed company
word: listee
word: lister
word: listmaker
word: scheduled territory
word: tick off
word: enlist