What is the meaning of breast?

noun

  • The front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen.
    • usage: "he beat his breast in anger"
  • Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.
  • Meat carved from the breast of a fowl.
  • The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest.

verb

  • Meet at breast level.
    • usage: "The runner breasted the tape"
  • Reach the summit (of a mountain. )
    • usage: "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"
  • Confront bodily.
    • usage: "breast the storm"
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APAWordNet. (2010). breast. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/breast/definitions/1213437
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MLAWordNet. "breast" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/breast/definitions/1213437>
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