Definitions for crest

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crest crest

Spelling: [krest]

IPA: /krɛst/

Crest is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in crest (cerst).

Definitions for crest

noun

1. the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
2. the head or top of anything.
3. a ridge or ridgelike formation.
4. the foamy top of a wave.
5. the point of highest flood, as of a river.
6. the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
7. a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
8. anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
9. the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
10. the mane growing from this ridge.
11. an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
12. a helmet.
13. a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
14. Heraldry. a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
15. Anatomy. a ridge, especially on a bone.
16. a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
17. Architecture. a cresting.
18. Machinery. (in a screw or other threaded object) the ridge or surface farthest from the body of the object and defined by the flanks of the thread. Compare root1 (def 15a).

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a crest.
2. to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
3. to reach the crest or summit of (a hill, mountain, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
2. to reach the crest or highest level:

Origin of crest

1275-1325; Middle English creste Old French Latin crista

Examples for crest

The river may crest to record heights on Monday evening, half a day sooner than expected—but the mayor says the city is prepared.

While he had been on the crest of the island an idea had come to him.

At the crest of it the woman halted and, turning, waved a handkerchief.

Plus, Procter & Gamble has already removed triclosan from its crest toothpaste.

Internal Revenue has its own crest or coat of arms or something.

We walk among the graves of his family cemetery on the crest of the hill.

Just look here, though,' I said, as I showed him the crest on my watch and seal.

Yet if help were brought us we might hold the crest until it comes.

His black hair sweeps back from the crest of his high forehead and laps at the nape of his neck; his lips are pursed.

The crest is a bubble, and really the effect produced by it is most ludicrous.