breast

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. The chest, or front of the human thorax.
3. A section of clothing covering the breast area.
4. The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
5. The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
6. 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.
7. The front or forward part of anything.
8. The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
9. The face of a coal working.
10. The front of a furnace.
11. (obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.
12. The breaststroke.

Verb

1. (figuratively, often, transitive) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
2. (transitive) To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence).
3. (transitive) To debreast.

Synonyms

chest

bosom

udder

milk

🥛

teat

nipple

thorax

tit

bust

boob

breasts

mamma

female breast

mammary gland

titty

front

knocker

brisket

face

suckle

summit

downstroke

encounter

vagina

mammary

white meat

sternum

baby bottle

🍼

chest cavity

flank

confront

heart

❤️

bosh

jug

visit

weather

woman’s breast

womb

come up against

mountain slope

skirt steak

pit of stomach

mouldboard

woman’s breasts

fillet . rib

saucer bosh

stope face

heading stope

butchery cut

funbags

Translations

sein

Brust

pecho

borst

poitrine

στήθος

peito

mamelle

pit

petto

seno

Busen

seno

seio

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɛst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: brest

Inherited from Old English: brēost

Cognate with Western Frisian: boarst

Cognate with Danish: bryst

Cognate with Swedish: bröst

Cognate with Dutch: borst

Cognate with German: Brust

In summary

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.