Meaning

3 senses

  1. (UK)A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.

  2. The act or practice of fasting, religious abstinence from food.

    1677 George Fox, The Hypocrites Fast and Feast Not God's Holy Day, p. 8 (paraphrasing Matthew 6:16-18). And is it not the Command of Christ, that in their Fast they should not appear unto men to fast?

  3. Any of the fasting periods in the liturgical year.

More definitions
  • abstaining from food

Examples

4060 sentences

  1. I'm tired of eating fast food.

    Я втомився від фаст-фуду.

    ruЯ устал от фаст-фуда.

    deIch habe es satt, Fastfood zu essen.

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  2. Run as fast as you can.

    Біжи якомога швидше.

    ruБеги как можно быстрее.

    deRenn so schnell, wie du kannst.

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  3. How fast does this train run?

    А цей потяг швидко їде?

    ruКак быстро едет этот поезд?

    deWie schnell fährt dieser Zug?

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  4. My watch is ten minutes fast.

    Мій годинник поспішає на десять хвилин.

    ruМои часы спешат на десять минут.

    deMeine Uhr geht zehn Minuten vor.

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  5. I ran as fast as possible.

    Я побіг якомога швидше.

    ruЯ бежала изо всех сил.

    deIch rannte so schnell ich konnte.

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Origin

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Ge

From Middle English fast, fest, from Old English fæst (“firm, secure”), from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see it for cognates and further etymology.

From Middle English faste, fasten, from Old English fæsten (“fast, fasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastuni, from Proto-Germanic *fastu(b)nją (“fast, fasting”). Cognate with Old Frisian festene, feste (Modern West Frisian fêsten, fêste), Middle Dutch vastene (Modern Dutch vasten), Middle Low German vastene (Modern German Low German Fasten), German Faste, Fasten (“fast, fasting”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌽𐌹 (fastubni, “fasting”). Possibly merged with Old Norse fasta (“fast, fasting”), whence also Danish faste (“fast, fasting”), Swedish fasta (“fast, fasting”).

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Forms

plural: fasts
Singularfast
Pluralfasts

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
expressA2express trainfast train
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms
localA2slow trainstopper

Word family

2 related words
DerivedbreakfastA1black fast

Collocations

12 patterns
  • as fast as
  • ran as fast
  • faster at doing
  • run faster than
  • run faster
  • drive too fast
  • fast runner
  • can run faster
  • be faster at
  • too fast for
  • much faster than
  • is a fast

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fashionA2fashionableB1fashionablyfastballfastenB1fastener
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