different between breast vs areola

English

Alternative forms

• brest (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English brest, from Old English br?ost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breust?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?rews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?st, IPA^(key): /b??st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: Brest

Noun

breast (plural breasts)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.

2. (anatomy) 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.

3. A section of clothing covering the breast area.
4. The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     […] Thou best know'st

     What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans

     Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts

     Of ever-angry bears— it was a torment

     To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax

     Could not again undo. It was mine art,

     When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape

     The pine and let thee out.

5. The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

6. 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.

7. The front or forward part of anything.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     Mountains on whose barren breast / The labouring clouds do often rest.
8. (mining) The face of a coal working.
9. (mining) The front of a furnace.
10. (obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.
    • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II scene iii^[3]:

      By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.

11. (swimming) the breaststroke

Synonyms

• (female organs): See also Thesaurus:breasts
• (chest): chest
• (seat of emotions): heart, soul
• (cut of poultry): white meat
• (cut of meat): brisket

Antonyms

• (cut of poultry): thigh, wing, dark meat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)

1. (transitive, often figuratively) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
2. To reach the top (of a hill).
3. (transitive, cooking) To debreast.
   • 2005, Texas Judicial Cookbook: Hello There!

     Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.

Translations

Anagrams

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola (“small vacant space, garden”), diminutive of ?rea. Doublet of areole.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???i.?.l?/, /?æ.?i???.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???i.?.l?/, /??.?i?o?.l?/, /?æ.?i?o?.l?/

Noun

areola (plural areolas or areolae or areolæ)

1. (anatomy) The colored circle around a nipple, more exactly known as areola mammae.
2. (by extension, anatomy) Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
3. (anatomy) Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.
   • 1847, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, volume 51, page 329:

     The tubes or elongated spaces of which we have spoken, are not distended with any fluid, but are merely moistened in the same way as the areolas of ordinary areolar tissue.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with aureola.

Derived terms

• areola mammae
• areolar

Related terms

• areole
• area

Translations

Further reading

• areola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola, diminutive of ?rea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.re??o?.la?/
• Hyphenation: are?ola

Noun

areola f (plural areola's or areolae)

1. (anatomy) areola (circle around a nipple)

   Synonym: tepelhof

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??reol?/, [??re??o?l?]
• Rhymes: -ol?
• Syllabification: a?re?o?la

Noun

areola

1. Synonym of nännipiha (“areola”)

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?reola. Compare the inherited doublet aiuola.

Noun

areola f (plural areole)

1. areola

Related terms

• area

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of ?rea.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a??re.o.la/, [ä???e???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?re.o.la/, [??????l?]

Noun

?reola f (genitive ?reolae); first declension

1. a small open place; courtyard
2. a small garden bed or cultivated place

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• areola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• areola in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• areola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Alternative forms

• aréola

Etymology

From Latin ?reola.

Noun

areola f (plural areolas)

1. (anatomy) areola (the coloured circle around a nipple)

   Synonym: aureola

Related terms

• areolar

Further reading

• “areola” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.