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From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-Germanic
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breast (plural breasts)
- Either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in men.
- Tanya's breasts grew alarmingly during pregnancy.
- The chest, or front of the human thorax.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
- A section of clothing covering the breast area.
- The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
- She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.
- The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.
- The robin has a red breast.
- A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.
- Would you like breast or wing?
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female organ
- Albanian: gji (sq)
- Arabic: ثدي (ar) (ṯadī) m
- Egyptian Arabic: بز (bezz) m
- Armenian: կուրծք (hy) (kurck')
- Aromanian: sin (rup)
- Basque: bular (eu), titi (eu), ugatz (eu), papar (eu), papo (eu)
- Belarusian: грудзі (be) (hrúdzi) f pl
- Breton: bronn (br) f
- Bulgarian: гърда (bg) (gǎrda) f, бюст (bg) (bjust) m
- Catalan: pit (ca) m
- Chamicuro: teni
- Chamorro: susu (ch)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 乳房 (cmn) (rǔfáng), 胸 (cmn) (xiōng)
- Min Nan: 奶 (nan) (ling, ni)
- Chiricahua: -be’
- Coptic: ⲕⲓϥⲓ (kifi) f, ⲙⲛⲟⲧ (ʔmnod, ʔmnot) m, ⲙⲛⲟϯ (ʔmnodi, ʔmnoti) pl
- Crimean Tatar: emçek
- Czech: prs (cs) m, ňadro (cs) n
- Danish: bryst (da) n
- Dutch: borst (nl) f
- Esperanto: mamo (eo)
- Estonian: rind (et)
- Ewe: no
- Faroese: bróst (fo) n
- Finnish: rinta (fi)
- French: sein (fr) m
- Friulian: stomi, pet, tete, sen
- Georgian: ძუძუ (ka) (dzudzu)
- German: Brust (de) f
- Greek: στήθος (el) (stíthos) n, (formal) μαστός (el) (mastós) m
- Guaraní: titi (gn)
- Haitian Creole: sen
- Hawaiian: ū, waiū
- Hebrew: שד (he) (shad) m, (colloquial, vulgar) ציצי (he) (tsitsi) m
- Hindi: स्तन (hi) (stan) m
- Hungarian: mell (hu)
- Icelandic: brjóst (is) n, bobblingur (is) m (vulgar)
- Ido: mamo (io)
- Indonesian: payudara (id), (colloquial, vulgar) susu (id)
- Irish: brollach (ga) m, cíoch (ga) f
- Italian: seno (it) m
- Japanese: 胸 (ja) (むね, muné), 乳房 (ja) (ちぶさ, chibusa), にゅうぼう (ja) (nyūbō)
- Kannada: ಮೊಲೆ (kn) (mūla)
- Kazakh: кеуде (kk) (kewde)
- Khmer: ដោះ (km) (dɑh), ថនា (km) (tʰanie), សុដន់ (km) (sodɑn)
- Korean: 유방 (ko) (yubang) (乳房 (ko))
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- Kurdish:
- Sorani: مهمک (ku) (memk)
- Lao: ຕູ້ (lo) (tuu)
- Latgalian: kryuts f
- Latin: mamma (la) f
- Latvian: krūts (lv) f
- Lithuanian: krūtis (lt) f
- Luhya: kamaturu
- Macedonian: града (mk) (gráda) f, дојка (mk) (dójka) f
- Malay: tetek (ms), payudara (ms), susu (ms)
- Malayalam: മുല (ml) (mula), സ്തനം (ml) (sthanam)
- Manx: kee (gv)
- Meriam: nano
- Navajo: -be’
- Northern Sami: čižži
- Norwegian: bryst (no) n
- Ottoman Turkish: پستان (pistan), ثدی (sedy)
- Persian: پستان (fa) (pestân)
- Pitjantjatjara: ipi, mimi
- Polish: pierś (pl) f, biust (pl) m
- Portuguese: seio (pt) m, peito (pt) m
- Romanian: piept (ro) m and f, sân (ro)
- Russian: грудь (ru) (grudʹ) f, груди (ru) (grúdi) f pl, (mildly vulgar) сиськи (ru) (sísʹki) f pl
- Sardinian: sinu (sc)
- Scottish Gaelic: cìoch (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: груди (sh) f pl, сиса (sh) f
- Roman: grudi (sh) f pl, sisa (sh) f
- Sicilian: nennè (scn) f
- Slovak: prsia (sk) n pl
- Slovene: prsi (sl) pl, dojka (sl) f
- Spanish: pecho (es) m, seno (es) m, teta (es) f
- Swedish: bröst (sv) n
- Tagalog: suso (tl)
- Telugu: చన్ను (te) (cannu), స్తనము (te) (stanamu)
- Thai: เต้านม (th) (dtâo nom)
- Torres Strait Creole: susu
- Turkish: meme (tr)
- Ukrainian: грудь (uk) (hrudʹ) f, груди (uk) (hrúdy) f pl
- Urdu: پستان (ur) (pistān) m
- Vietnamese: vú (vi)
- Volapük: blöt (vo)
- West Frisian: boarst (fy)
- Western Apache: -be’
- Yiddish: ברוסט (yi) (brust) f
- Zulu: ibele (zu) 5/6
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section of clothing covering the breast area
choice cut of meat from poultry or other animals
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breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)
- (transitive) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, to oppose, to face.
- He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.
- Wirt
- The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.
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