vesta

1. 1.

   (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia

   BroaderRoman deity

   Roman mythology

2. 2.

   the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered

   Broaderasteroid

Other forms of vesta

plural

vestas·

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 vesta

What does vesta mean?

vesta means "(Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vesta?

vesta has 2 syllables: ves-ta. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /ˈvɛstə/.

Is vesta a common word?

vesta is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.