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say it: JES-chur
gesture is a noun and verb meaning "motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɛstʃɚ/ — JES-chur. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
something done as an indication of intention
“a political gesture”
“a gesture of defiance”
show, express or direct through movement
“He gestured his desire to leave”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gesture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.