breast

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Either of the two soft parts on a woman's chest that can produce milk.

   The baby fed at its mother's breast.

2. 2
   noun

   The front part of the chest in people or animals.

   He folded his arms across his breast.

3. 3
   noun

   The chest seen as the place where feelings come from.

   Hope grew in the breast of everyone who heard her speak.

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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