breast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
business
cooking
food
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
mining
sciences
sports
swimming
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *breustą
Proto-West Germanic *breust
Old English brēost
Middle English brest
English breast
From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.
Inflected forms:
form: breasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: breasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brest
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.
pos: noun
examples: Tanya’s breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.
Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’
Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
gloss: The chest, or front of the human thorax.
pos: noun
examples: The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
gloss: A section of clothing covering the breast area.
pos: noun
examples: By the time he reached the War Memorial damp had soaked through the breasts of his shirt.
gloss: The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
pos: noun
examples: She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.
He has a loyal breast.
[…]Thou best know’st
What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
Of ever-angry bears—it was a torment
To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax
Could not again undo. It was mine art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine and let thee out.
Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
gloss: The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
pos: noun
examples: The robin has a red breast.
gloss: A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
pos: noun
examples: Would you like breast or wing?
gloss: The front or forward part of anything.
pos: noun
examples: chimney breast
plough breast
If you burn wood on its own, the flue gases are cooler than from a coal fire. This can result in tars condensing out within the parging and brickwork of the flue, sometimes causing brown or yellow staining on upstairs chimney breasts.
gloss: The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
pos: noun
examples: Mountains on whose barren breast / The labouring clouds do often rest.
[…] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]
gloss: The face of a coal working.
pos: noun
gloss: The front of a furnace.
pos: noun
gloss: The power of singing; a musical voice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.
gloss: The breaststroke.
pos: noun
gloss: To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: […]when the court, very much to the credit of their candour and firmness, breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.
gloss: To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.
Vera Nugent, a brisk woman of the world, with a fondness for vivid clothing and a Spanish air which went oddly with it, took the trouble one fine day to tackle her brother. “Look here, Jimmy," she said as they breasted a mountain pass, “are you quite sure what you are up to with these people?”
With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.
But this was excelled by the remarkable feat of Iron Duke, on the second run, in accelerating from a dead start at Miller's Dale up 1 in 90 to no less than 53 m.p.h. before breasting the summit at Peak Forest.
gloss: To debreast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.
Antonyms: thigh
wing
dark meat
Derived words: abreast
bare one's breast
beat one's breast
bluebreast
Breastapo
breast augmentation
breastaurant
breastband
breastbeam
breast-beating
breast bone
breastbone
breast boobily
breast cancer
breast cleavage
breast down
breast drill
breast envy
breastfast
breast-fed
breast-feed
breast feed
breastfeed
breastfeeder
breast feeding
breastfeeding
breast flattening
breastflesh
breast form
breastful
breast-girdle
breast-girth
breast girth
breastgirth
breasthook
breasticle
breastie
breast implant
breast ironing
breastknot
breastless
breastlift
breastlike
breast line
breastling
breast milk
breastmilk
breast mint
breast one's cards
breast pad
breast pang
breastpin
breastplate
breastplough
breast pocket
breastpoint
breast pump
breastrail
breast reduction
breastroke
breastrope
breast shell
breastshot
breast-strap
breaststrap
breast strap
breaststroke
breast the tape
breast up
breast wall
breastwear
breastwheel
breastwork
breasty
bressummer
broken breast
chicken breast
chimney-breast
chimney breast
comedy breasts
forebreast
hope springs eternal in the human breast
make a clean breast
nonbreast
outbreast
Paget's disease of the breast
redbreast
robin-breast
specklebreast
triple-negative breast cancer
triple negative breast cancer
unbreast
velvetbreast
woody breast
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: դոշ
roman: doš
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 胸甲
roman: xiōngjiǎ
lang: Dutch
word: borst
lang: Finnish
word: rinta
lang: French
word: poitrine
lang: French
word: poitrail
lang: Greek
word: στήθος
roman: stíthos
lang: Hungarian
word: mell
lang: Icelandic
word: bringa
lang: Irish
word: ucht
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: sîng
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bersîng
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: berçîsk
lang: Macedonian
word: гради
roman: gradi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bryst
lang: Portuguese
word: peito
lang: Russian
word: грудь
roman: grudʹ
lang: Spanish
word: pechuga
lang: Swedish
word: bröst
lang: Tamil
word: மார்பு
roman: mārpu