chest

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɛst/
  • (dialectal, obsolete) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪst/[1]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Etymology 1[edit]

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 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 forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

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 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. (euphemistic) A female human's breasts.
  8. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
    She scored with a chest into the goal.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
coffin — see coffin
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Verb[edit]

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.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

chest (plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

References[edit]

  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.

Anagrams[edit]

Friulian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronoun[edit]

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

  1. this

See also[edit]

Ladin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. this
  2. (in the plural) these

Lombard[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

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

Determiner[edit]

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

  1. this

Pronoun[edit]

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

  1. this
  2. this one

Synonyms[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

chest (plural chestes)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

chest

  2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

chest

  2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French[edit]

Adjective[edit]

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

  1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

chest

  1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cest gest nghest chest
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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