• IPA: /kɹɛst/

crest (plural crests)

1. The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
2. A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
3. The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
4. (heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
5. The upper curve of a horse's neck.
6. The ridge or top of a wave.
7. The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
8. The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
9. The top line of a slope or embankment.
10. (anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.
11. (informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
12. Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.

• (skin on head of birds) comb, cockscomb

• French: crête
• German: Kamm, Haube, Krone
• Italian: cresta
• Portuguese: crista
• Russian: гре́бень
• Spanish: cresta

• French: huppe, aigrette
• Italian: cresta, cimiero
• Portuguese: pluma, crista
• Russian: плюма́ж
• Spanish: cresta, cimera

• French: cimier
• German: Helmzier, Zimir, Helmkleinod
• Italian: timbro, cimiero
• Portuguese: timbre
• Spanish: cimera

• French: crinière
• Italian: crine, criniera
• Portuguese: crina
• Russian: гри́ва

• French: crête
• Italian: cresta
• Portuguese: crista (da/de onda)
• Russian: гре́бень
• Spanish: cresta

• French: crête
• Italian: cresta
• Portuguese: cume
• Russian: верши́на
• Spanish: cornisa, cresta

• Portuguese: elmo

• Russian: конёк

• Russian: гре́бень

crest (crests, present participle cresting; past and past participle crested)

1. (intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
2. (transitive) To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)
3. To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:

     His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.

   • groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow

4. To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

   • Like as the shining sky in summer's night, […] / Is crested with lines of fiery light.

1. (military) Acronym of comparisons, reasons, examples, statistics, testimony: the five types of verbal support used to enhance an oral presentation.