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chest

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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”).

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Noun

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chest (plural chests)

  1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
    The clothes are kept in a chest.
    • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
      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, […].
  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.
  6. (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.
    Hypernym: thorax (synonymous in humans and some other animals)
    Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
    Comeronyms: head, neck, abdomen, limbs
    She had a sudden pain in her chest.
    An anteroposterior radiograph found opacities throughout her chest.
  8. The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.
    Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
    Comeronyms: back, dorsum
    He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
    The wild gorilla was beating its chest.
  10. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.
    He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
  11. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
    She scored with a chest into the goal.
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Verb

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chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

  1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
    • 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC‎[2]:
      Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
  2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English chest, 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”).

Noun

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chest (plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

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  1. ^ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎[1], 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 74.

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste (see there for cognates), from Latin eccum (“behold”) + iste (“that”). Compare Ladin chest and Romansch quest.

Pronoun

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chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

  1. this

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Ladin

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum + iste. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

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chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

  1. this
  2. (in the plural) these

Lombard

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Alternative forms

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  • cuest (formal variant)
  • quest (Western orthography)

Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *eccum iste, from Latin eccum (deictic) +‎ iste (“that”).

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Usage notes

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When followed by a word starting with consonant, it's often pronounced without the ending /t/.

Determiner

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chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

  1. this

Pronoun

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chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chestj, feminine plural cheste)

  1. this
  2. this one

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English ċeast, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).

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Noun

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chest (plural chestes)

  2. fighting, strife, battle
  3. quarrelling, disputation
  4. (rare) turmoil, discord
Descendants
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  • English: chest
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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chest

  2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

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Noun

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chest

  2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French

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Adjective

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chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

  1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

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Verb

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chest

  1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cest
radical soft nasal aspirate
cest gest nghest chest

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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