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chest

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EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1Edit

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 (kístē, “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”).

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

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 752825175, page 035:
      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 front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
    She had a sudden pain in her chest.
  7. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
    He scored with a chest into the goal.
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Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
coffin — see coffin
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VerbEdit

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[1]:
      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.
    • Bible, Genesis 1. 26
      He dieth and is chested.

Etymology 2Edit

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”).

NounEdit

chest (plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

AnagramsEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.

PronounEdit

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

  1. this

See alsoEdit

LadinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansh quest, Italian questo.

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. this
  2. (in the plural) these

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English ċeast.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chest (plural chestes)

  2. fighting, strife, battle
  3. quarrelling, disputation
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
      And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.
  4. (rare) turmoil, discord
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old French geste.

NounEdit

chest

  2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3Edit

From Old English ċest.

NounEdit

chest

  2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old FrenchEdit

AdjectiveEdit

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

  1. Picardy form of cist

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

chest

  1. Aspirate mutation of cest.
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