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celest

obsolete

celest is an adjective meaning “Synonym of celestial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-E-L-E-S-T, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does celest mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteSynonym of celestial.

  2. 2

    obsoleteSynonym of heavenly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of celest

  • more celest comparative
  • most celest superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is celest?

Celest appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does celest come from?

From Latin caelestis (“heavenly”), probably via French céleste, from caelum (“sky, heavens, Heaven”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).