breast
/bɹɛst/
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breast noun: 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.
Noun
breast (plural breasts)
- 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.
- 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.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 219
- The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Synonyms:
- chest
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- By the time he reached the War Memorial damp had soaked through the breasts of his shirt.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 45
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one’s heart or innermost thoughts.
- She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.
- He has a loyal breast.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
- The ventral portion of an animal’s thorax.
- The robin has a red breast.
- 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.
- Would you like breast or wing?
- Synonyms:
- white meat, brisket
- The front or forward part of anything.
- chimney breast
- plough breast
- The upper surface of a landform or body of water.
- Mountains on whose barren breast / The labouring clouds do often rest.a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC
- […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
- The face of a coal working.
- The front of a furnace.
- The power of singing; a musical voice.
- By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- The breaststroke.
Verb
breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)
- To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
- […]when the court, very much to the credit of their candour and firmness, breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.1817, William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, page 22
- It wasn’t pinchers fault that he was not the first to breast the bar.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 24
- To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence).
- 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?”1916, Maurice Hewlett, Love and Lucy, page 247
- To debreast.
- Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.2005, Texas Judicial Cookbook: Hello There!
breast meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
breast in Hindi
- milk-producing organ
- स्तन stan
- chest
- छाती chātī
breast in Tamil
- animal's thorax
- மார்பு mārpu
- milk-producing organ
- முலை mulai, மார்பு mārpu
- chest
- நெஞ்சு neñcu, மார்பு mārpu
- seat of emotions
- நெஞ்சம் neñcam
breast in Marathi
- breast, tit
- स्तन stana
- breast, bosom
- छाती chātī
breast in Urdu
- milk-producing organ
- پِسْتان pistān
- chest
- چھاتی chātī
More languagesFewer languages
- breast in Bengali
- স্তন ston, বুক buk
- breast in Telugu
- చన్ను cannu, స్తనము stanamu
- breast in Malayalam
- മുല mula, സ്തനം stanaṁ
- breast in Kannada
- ಮೊಲೆ mole, ಸ್ತನ stana
- breast in Punjabi
- ਮੰਮਾ mammā
- breast in Gujarati
- સ્તન stan, છાતી chātī
- breast in Odia
- ସ୍ତନ stana
- breast in Sanskrit
- कुच kuca, स्तन stana, वक्षस् vakṣas
- breast in Sinhala
- තනය tanaya, උරුව uruwa, ළය ḷaya
- breast in Assamese
- স্তন ston
- breast in Nepali
- स्तन stan, छाती chātī
- breast in Pashto
- تی tay, غلانځه ǧǝlānza, چچو čačo, سينه siná
- breast in Tagalog
- suso
- breast in Arabic
- ثَدْي ṯady, بز bezz, ديد dēd, صَدِر ṣadir
- breast in Malay
- tetek, payudara, susu, buah dada
- breast in Indonesian
- payudara, buah dada, susu, dada
- breast in Persian
- پِسْتان pestân, مَمِه mame, سینِه sine, قَفَسِهٔ سینِه ġafase-ye sine
- breast in Thai
- เต้านม dtâo-nom, นม nom, ทรวง suuang
- breast in Vietnamese
- vú
- breast in Myanmar
- နို့ nui., ရင် rang, ရင်ဘတ် rangbhat
Examples of breast in a sentence
- ‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who?1964, Philip K. Dick, “TWELVE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers...
- Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.2023 July 21, Amanda Musa, “The FDA approved the US’ first over-the-counter birth control pill. What happens next?”, in CNN:
- Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
- 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.2015 April 7, Jeff Howell, “The secret of longer lasting tiles [print version: How to avoid cracking up, 4 April 2015, p. P7]”, in The...
Synonyms of breast
Antonyms
Forms of breast
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | breasts |
| alternative form (obsolete) | brest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | breasts |
| present participle | breasting |
| past participle | breasted |
| past | breasted |
Origin of 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.
Words formed from breast
- 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
- breasteses
- breastfast
- breast-fed
- breast-feed
- breast feed
- breastfeed
- breastfeeder
- breast feeding
- breastfeeding
- breast flattening
- breastflesh
- breast form
- breastful
- breast-girdle
- breast-girth
- breastgirth
- breast girth
- 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
Phrases with breast
- breast up
- breast fed
- breast pads
- breast wall
- breast bones
- breast feeds
- breast forms
- breast lines
- breast milks
- breast mints
- breast pumps
- breast shell
29 more phrasesFewer phrases
- breast strap
- breast walls
- woody breast
- breast drills
- breast girths
- breast shells
- breast straps
- broken breast
- breast cancers
- breast pockets
- chicken breast
- chimney breast
- breast implants
- breast the tape
- breast reductions
- bared one's breast
- bares one's breast
- beats one's breast
- baring one's breast
- beaten one's breast
- made a clean breast
- make a clean breast
- beating one's breast
- breast augmentations
- makes a clean breast
- making a clean breast
- Paget disease of the breast
- Paget's disease of the breast
- hope springs eternal in the human breast
Words that rhyme with breast
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about breast
- What does breast mean?
- Breast means 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.
- What is breast in Hindi?
- Breast in Hindi is स्तन (stan), छाती (chātī). See Breast meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use breast in a sentence?
- ‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who?
- What part of speech is breast?
- Breast can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce breast?
- Breast is pronounced /bɹɛst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of breast?
- The plural of breast is breasts.
Words near breast in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: breast (page history and authors); छाती (Marathi) (page history and authors); ਮੰਮਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); උරුව (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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