Noun: chest
| Singular | chest |
| Plural | chests |
Sample Sentences
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The clothes are kept in a chest.
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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 Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
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You can take the money from the chest.
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Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
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She had a sudden pain in her chest.
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An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
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Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
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He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
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The wild gorilla was beating its chest.
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He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
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She scored with a chest into the goal.
Nouns inflected like chest
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cheste', Latin Nouns '
cista', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κίστη'.