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breast

/bɹɛst/ noun

Categories: The BodyFood & DrinkEveryday Words

In Latin: mamma, sūmen Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about breast at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. The front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen.
    he beat his breast in anger
  2. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.
  3. Meat carved from the breast of a fowl.

verb

  1. Meet at breast level.
    The runner breasted the tape
  2. Reach the summit (of a mountain).
    They breasted the mountain
  3. Confront bodily.
    breast the storm

Origin

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.

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