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单词 joust
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joust

noun
/dʒaʊst/
/dʒaʊst/
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  1. an event in which people fight on horses using a long stick (= a lance) to try to knock the other person off their horse, especially as part of a formal contest in the past
    • a medieval joust
  2. (formal) an act of arguing with somebody, especially as part of a formal or public debate
    • the weekly verbal joust called Prime Minister's Questions
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2

joust

verb
/dʒaʊst/
/dʒaʊst/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they joust
/dʒaʊst/
/dʒaʊst/
he / she / it jousts
/dʒaʊsts/
/dʒaʊsts/
past simple jousted
/ˈdʒaʊstɪd/
/ˈdʒaʊstɪd/
past participle jousted
/ˈdʒaʊstɪd/
/ˈdʒaʊstɪd/
-ing form jousting
/ˈdʒaʊstɪŋ/
/ˈdʒaʊstɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] to fight on horses using a long stick (= a lance) to try to knock the other person off their horse, especially as part of a formal contest in the past
  2. [intransitive] (formal) to argue with somebody, especially as part of a formal or public debateTopics Opinion and argumentc2
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘join battle, engage’): from Old French jouster ‘bring together’, based on Latin juxta ‘near’.
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