Abstract. The goal of this paper is to present an isometric representation of the dual space to Cesàro function space Cp,w, 1 < p < ∞, induced by arbitrary positive weight function w on interval (0, l) where 0 < l ∞. For this purpose given a strictly decreasing nonnegative function Ψ on (0, l), the notion of essential Ψ-concave majorantf of a measurable function f is introduced and investigated. As applications it is shown that every slice of the unit ball of the Cesàro function space has diameter 2. Consequently Cesàro function spaces do not have the Radon-Nikodym property, are not locally uniformly convex and they are not dual spaces.