Definition of "chest" in English

noun

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

   • The clothes are kept in a chest.

2. (obsolete) A coffin.

3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

   • You can take the money from the chest.

4. A chest of drawers.

5. (anatomy) The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.

   • Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
   • She had a sudden pain in her chest.
   • An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.

6. The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.

   • Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
   • He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
   • The wild gorilla was beating its chest.

7. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.

   • He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.

8. A hit or blow made with one's chest.

   • She scored with a chest into the goal.

verb

1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

4. (transitive, Africa) To handle, deal with.

noun

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.