crest

1. 1.

   lie at the top of

   “Snow capped the mountains”

   Synonymscap

   Broaderlie
2. 2.

   reach a high point

   “The river crested last night”

   Broadertop out

Other forms of crest

plural

crests·

past tense

crested·

present participle

cresting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crest

What does crest mean?

crest means "the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crest?

crest has 1 syllable: crest. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɛst/.

What is another word for crest?

Close synonyms include peak, crown, top, tip, summit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crest a common word?

crest is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with crest?

2 words rhyme with crest. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.