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English

Adverb

abrest (not comparable)

1. (archaic or nonstandard) Alternative spelling of abreast

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, abrest

Anagrams

• Baster, Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, barest, baster, bestar, breast, rebats, tabers

Middle English

Etymology

From "on brest" or a- +? brest

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?br?(?)st/

Adverb

abrest

1. side by side

   Owt they Comen Al On Abrest. — The History of the Holy Grail, Henry Lovelich, 1450

Descendants

• English: abreast

References

• “abr??st, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Noun

brest (plural brests)

1. Obsolete spelling of breast

   • Thereout a strange beast with seven heads arose, / That townes and castles under her brest did coure.

Anagrams

• Streb

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English br?ost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breust?.

Alternative forms

• breste, breost, breist, brost, brust, brist, breast, bryest

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /brø?st/
• IPA^(key): /bre?st/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /br?st/

Noun

brest (plural brestes or bresten)

2. chest, thorax
3. The breast in several contexts:
   1. breast (protrusion on the front of the chest)
   2. female breast (for nursing)
   3. breast (cut of meat)
   4. breast, heart (centre of emotional functioning)
4. breastplate, chest plate
5. womb
6. The front portion of a band or troop

Descendants

• English: brest, breast
• Scots: brest, breist, breest

References

• “br??st, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English byrst and Old Norse brestr, both from Proto-Germanic *brestuz.

Alternative forms

• berst, barst

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

brest (plural brestes)

2. A breaking or smashing.
3. A noise or clamour.
4. Damage or injury.
5. Neediness.

Descendants

• English: bryst (obsolete)

References

• “brest, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse brestr

Noun

brest m (definite singular bresten, indefinite plural brestar or brester, definite plural brestane or brestene)

1. a crack

2. a flaw

References

• “brest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): brijest

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berst?.

Noun

brest m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. elm

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *berst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brè?st/, /bré?st/, /br??st/

Noun

br??st or br?st m inan

1. elm (tree)

Inflection

Further reading

• “brest”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse bresta, from Proto-Germanic *brestan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”).

Verb

brest (preterite brestä)

1. (transitive) unpick, rip apart what is sewn
2. (intransitive) sprout, malt; of seed and seed grain