Usually means: Organism that damages crops, health.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pest, pest: Merriam-Webster
  3. pest, the pest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pest, pest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pest, pest: Wordnik
  8. pest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pest: Wiktionary
  10. pest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pest: Dictionary.com
  14. pest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. PEST (disambiguation), PEST, Pest (agriculture), Pest (animal), Pest (band), Pest (city), Pest (county), Pest (hockey), Pest (ice hockey), Pest (musician), Pest (organism), Pest, The Pest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pest: Rhymezone
  20. pest, pest (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. PEST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pest: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Pest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pest-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pest (disambiguation), pest: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pest (disambiguation), pest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pest (plague): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Pest (disambiguation), pest: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Pest (plague): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pest: HYPP Zoology
  2. Biological Control (No longer online)
  3. PEST: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Pest, pest: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. PEST: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See pesting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now rare) A pestilence, i.e. a deadly epidemic, a deadly plague.
noun:  Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
noun:  An annoying person, a nuisance.
noun:  An animal regarded as a nuisance, destructive, or a parasite, vermin.
noun:  An invasive weed.
noun:  (historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
noun:  The corresponding part of the current-day city of Budapest, on the eastern side of the Danube.
noun:  A county in central Hungary, surrounding Budapest.

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