Meaning

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

    The clothes are kept in a chest.

    Truhe, Koffer

    сунду́кsundúk, я́щикjáščik

    скри́няskrýnja, я́щикjáščyk, ку́ферkúfer

    box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy

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

    You can take the money from the chest.

    Kasse

    сокро́вищницаsokróviščnica

    скарбни́цяskarbnýcja

  3. A chest of drawers.

    Kommode

    комо́дkomód, шифонье́рšifonʹjér

    комо́дkomód, комо́даkomóda

    furniture with drawers for keeping clothes

  4. 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.

    Brust, Brustkorb, Thorax

    грудьgrudʹ, грудна́я кле́ткаgrudnája klétka

    гру́диhrúdy, грудна́ клі́ткаhrudná klítka

    the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates

  5. 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.

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

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

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

    She scored with a chest into the goal.

  8. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

  9. (obsolete)A coffin.

Examples

441 sentences
  1. I have a sharp pain in my chest.

    У мене різкий біль у грудях.

    ruУ меня острая боль в груди.

    deIch habe einen stechenden Schmerz in meiner Brust.

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  2. I have a pain in my chest.

    У мене болять груди.

    ruУ меня болит грудь.

    deIch habe Schmerzen in der Brust.

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  3. He felt an acute pain in his chest.

    Він відчув гострий біль у грудях.

    ruОн почувствовал острую боль в груди.

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  4. Tom was shot in the chest.

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  5. Are you having any chest pain?

    ruУ вас есть боли в груди?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
strong box:
treasury:
chest of drawers:
thorax:
Русский
By meaning 4
strong box:
treasury:
chest of drawers:
thorax:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
strong box:
treasury:
chest of drawers:
thorax:

Origin

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; r

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”).

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”).

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Forms

plural: chests
Singularchest
Pluralchests

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
the thorax:breastB1
Close in meaning
  • furniture with drawers for keeping clothes:chest of drawersbureaudresser
  • the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates:thoraxpectus
  • the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen:breast

Word family

82 related words

Collocations

7 patterns
  • on his chest
  • on my chest
  • in the chest
  • in my chest
  • in his chest
  • chest pain
  • to his chest

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chest — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto