chest
/t͡ʃɛst/
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Scotland/t͡ʃɪst/
chest noun: a box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
Noun (1)
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- The clothes are kept in a chest.
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- trunk
- A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- You can take the money from the chest.
- A chest of drawers.
- The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.
- Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
- She had a sudden pain in her chest.
- Synonyms:
- breast
- The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
- Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
- He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
- A female human's breasts.
- He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest.
- She scored with a chest into the goal.
Verb
chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC
- To deposit in a chest.
- To place in a coffin.
- To handle, deal with.
- Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.2025 August 2, @ulxma, X
Noun (2)
chest (plural chests)
Proper noun capitalized: Chest
Chest
- University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
chest meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
chest in Hindi
- strong box
- संदूक़ sandūq, तिजोरी tijorī, पिटारा piṭārā
- treasury
- तिजोरी tijorī
- thorax
- छाती chātī, सीना sīnā
chest in Tamil
- மார்பு, நெஞ்சு
chest in Marathi
- thorax
- छाती chātī
chest in Urdu
- strong box
- صَنْدُوق sandūq
- thorax
- چھاتی chātī
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- chest in Bengali
- সিন্দুক śinduk, উর ur
- chest in Telugu
- రొమ్ము rommu
- chest in Malayalam
- നെഞ്ച് neñcŭ
- chest in Kannada
- ಎದೆ, ಎರ್ದೆ, ಎೞ್ದೆ, ಗುಂಡಿಗೆ
- chest in Punjabi
- ਸੰਦੂਕ sandūk
- chest in Gujarati
- છાતી chātī
- chest in Sanskrit
- वक्षस् vakṣas
- chest in Assamese
- বুকু buku
- chest in Nepali
- छाती chātī
- chest in Tagalog
- dibdib
- chest in Arabic
- صُنْدُوق m or صَنْدُوق ṣundūq, خَزِينَة ḵazīna, كُمُودِينُو kumūdīnū, أَدْرَاجِيَّة ʔadrājiyya
- chest in Malay
- peti, dada, toraks
- chest in Indonesian
- dada, toraks
- chest in Thai
- หีบ hìip, หน้าอก nâa-òk
- chest in Vietnamese
- rương, hòm, ngực
- chest in Myanmar
- ရင် rang, ရင်ဘတ် rangbhat
Examples of chest in a sentence
- An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
- The wild gorilla was beating its chest.
Synonyms of chest
Forms of chest
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chests |
| alternative form (obsolete) | chist |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chests |
| present participle | chesting |
| past participle | chested |
| past | chested |
Origin of chest
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”).
From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).
Shortened form of Chester taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Words formed from chest
- acute chest syndrome
- Armada chest
- arm-chest
- bachelor's chest
- bad chest
- barrel chest
- beat one's chest
- beat out the chest
- blanket chest
- bookchest
- chestage
- chestal
- chest bag
- chest band
- chest-beating
- chest becket
- chest breather
- chest-bump
- chest bump
- chest button
- chest candy
- chest cavity
- chest cold
- chest day
- chest expander
- chestfeed
- chestfeeder
- chest freezer
- chestful
- chestguard
- chest hair
- chest-high
- chesticle
- chesticles
- chestless
- chestlike
- chestly
- chest mark
- chest melon
- chest monster
- chest note
- chest of drawers
- chest of viols
- chest one's cards
- chestpad
- chest pass
- chestpiece
- chestplate
- chest press
- chest-protector beard
- chest rub
- chest surgery
- chest-thumping
- chest tightness
- chest tube
- chest up
- chest voice
- chest wall
- chesty
- community chest
Phrases with chest
- ice chest
- pie chest
- sea chest
- tea chest
- war chest
- chest bags
- chest days
- chest down
- chest rubs
- hope chest
- plan chest
- side chest
79 more phrasesFewer phrases
- slop chest
- tool chest
- chest bands
- chest bumps
- chest colds
- chest hairs
- chest marks
- chest notes
- chest tubes
- chest walls
- flail chest
- money chest
- steam chest
- chest bumped
- chest melons
- chest passes
- freeze chest
- funnel chest
- Hadley chest
- pigeon chest
- chest beckets
- chest bumping
- chest buttons
- chest presses
- wedding chest
- chest cavities
- chest freezers
- chest monsters
- marriage chest
- medicine chest
- tea chest bass
- treasure chest
- chest breathers
- chest expanders
- chest surgeries
- puff one's chest
- tea chest basses
- with one's chest
- beats one's chest
- Dead Chest Island
- puffs one's chest
- tea chest bassist
- beaten one's chest
- puffed one's chest
- tea chest bassists
- water on the chest
- beating one's chest
- get off one's chest
- got off one's chest
- puffing one's chest
- gets off one's chest
- take off one's chest
- took off one's chest
- modified chest thrust
- taken off one's chest
- takes off one's chest
- gotten off one's chest
- modified chest thrusts
- taking off one's chest
- getting off one's chest
- put hair on one's chest
- puts hair on one's chest
- put hair on someone's chest
- putting hair on one's chest
- puts hair on someone's chest
- took something off one's chest
- putting hair on someone's chest
- taken something off one's chest
- takes something off one's chest
- taking something off one's chest
- get the dirty water off one's chest
- got the dirty water off one's chest
- gets the dirty water off one's chest
- keep one's cards close to one's chest
- kept one's cards close to one's chest
- keeps one's cards close to one's chest
- getting the dirty water off one's chest
- keeping one's cards close to one's chest
- first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest
Words that rhyme with chest
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 chest
- What does chest mean?
- Chest means a box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- What is chest in Hindi?
- Chest in Hindi is संदूक़ (sandūq), तिजोरी (tijorī), पिटारा (piṭārā). See Chest meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use chest in a sentence?
- An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
- What part of speech is chest?
- Chest can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce chest?
- Chest is pronounced /t͡ʃɛst/.
- What is the plural of chest?
- The plural of chest is chests.
Words near chest in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chest (page history and authors); Chest (page history and authors); chest (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chest (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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