English
whist
Pronunciation
  • enPR: wĭst, IPA: /wɪst/ or enPR: hwĭst, IPA: /ʍɪst/ (in Scottish English and some English accents)
Noun

whist

  1. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.
  2. A session of playing this card game.
Translations
  • French: whist
  • Russian: вист
Interjection
  1. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence!, quiet!, hush!, shhh!, shush!
Verb

whist (whists, present participle whisting; past and past participle whisted)

  1. (transitive, rare) To hush, shush, or silence; to still.
  2. (intransitive, rare) To become silent.
Adjective

whist

  1. (rare) Silent, husht.
    • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii:
      Come unto these yellow sands, / And then take hands: / Courtsied when you have and kiss'd / The wild waves whist, / Foot it featly here and there; / And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. […]


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