Chest Definition

chĕst
noun
A box with a lid and, often, a lock, for storing or shipping things.
Webster's New World
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The part of the body enclosed by the ribs, breastbone, and diaphragm; thorax.
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The outside front part of this.
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A cabinet, as for holding medical supplies or toiletries.
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Antonyms:
verb
To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
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To deposit in a chest.
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Other Word Forms of Chest

Noun

Singular:
chest
Plural:
chests

Origin of Chest

  • From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-Germanic *kistō (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kistē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh₂ (“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English 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”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English cest box from West Germanic kista from Latin cista from Greek kistē

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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