1. body movement: a movement made with a part of the body in order to express meaning or emotion or to communicate an instruction
2. action communicating something: an action intended to communicate feelings or intentions
3. use of gestures: the use of body movements to communicate
transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participleges·tured, present participleges·tur·ing, 3rd person present singularges·tures)
Definition:
make body movement: to make a movement with a part of the body in order to express meaning or emotion or to communicate an instruction
[15th century. < medieval Latin gestura "deportment" < Latin gerere "carry, act"]
ges·tur·al adjective
ges·tur·al·ly adverb
Word History
The Latin word gerere "to carry, act" from which gesture is derived, is also the source of English congest, digest, gestation, gesticulate, ingest, jest, and suggestion.
