Usually means: To avoid the risk of.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word lest:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lest: Merriam-Webster
  3. lest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lest: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lest: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lest, l'est, lest, l'Est: Wordnik
  8. lest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lest: Wiktionary
  10. lest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lest: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lest, lest: Dictionary.com
  14. lest: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. LEST, Lest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lest: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lest: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lest: Rhymezone
  19. Lest: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lest: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lest: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEST: Acronym Finder
  2. lest: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lest: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lesting as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  for fear that ("She tiptoed lest her mother should hear her")
adverb:  that (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.) ("He worried lest he should be late")


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