breast

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
  2. noun either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
  3. noun meat carved from the breast of a fowl

Etymology

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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Synonyms

chest

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