Definitions
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Word origin
The noun is derived from Old French gist, a noun use of the third person singular indicative of gesir (“to lie down”) (modern French gésir; compare Anglo-Norman (cest) action gist (literally “(law) (this) action lies”)), from Latin iacēre, the present active infinitive of iaceō (“to lie down, lie prostrate, recline”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”) (probably in the sense of something being thrown down).
Used in a sentence
“I don't wanna belabor my point; I'm sure you get the gist.”
“He was handing her something in an envelope, and she was saying “Oh, Jeeves, you've saved a human life,” and he was saying “Not at all, miss.” The gist, of course, escaped me, but I had no leisure to probe into gists.”
“The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past, by antiquarian interest.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Core idea”4 letters
02“Main point”4 letters
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