noun
Meaning 1
A downhill trail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skiing, sports
Examples
- They were skiing on the piste.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
piste
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/pɪst/
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/piːst/
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rhymes with -ɪst
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rhymes with -iːst
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homophone: pissed
noun
Meaning 2
The field of play of a fencing match.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fencing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The track left by somebody riding a horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a ski run densely packed with snow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ski run, ski trail
noun
Meaning 5
a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: court
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French piste.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: пи́ста (písta) — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Czech: sjezdovka — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Danish: pist — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Finnish: rinne — (skiing) a downhill trail
- German: Piste — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Greek: πίστα (písta) — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Hungarian: sípálya — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Italian: pista — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Persian: پیست (pist) — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Portuguese: pista — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Russian: лы́жная тра́сса (lýžnaja trássa) — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Swedish: pist — (skiing) a downhill trail
- Czech: planš — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Finnish: miekkailualue — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- French: planche — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- French: pista — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- German: Planche — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Hungarian: pást — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Italian: pedana — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Portuguese: pista — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Spanish: pista — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
- Swedish: pist — (fencing) the field of play of a fencing match
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