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chest
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ?est, ?ist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh? (“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
- chist (obsolete)
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
- (obsolete) A coffin.
- The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
- A chest of drawers.
- (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.
- A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Synonyms
- (the thorax): breast
- (box): trunk
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)
- To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
- (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
- (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
Derived terms
- chest down
Etymology 2
From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ??ast, ??as (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian k?se (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German k?sa (“speech, story, account”).
Noun
chest (plural chests)
- Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
Anagrams
- Tesch, chets, techs
Friulian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.
Pronoun
chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)
- this
See also
- chel
Ladin
Alternative forms
- chëst
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.
Adjective
chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)
- this
- (in the plural) these
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ?east, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).
Alternative forms
- cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
chest (plural chestes)
- fighting, strife, battle
- quarrelling, disputation
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- (rare) turmoil, discord
Descendants
- English: chest
References
- “ch?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.
Etymology 2
From Old French geste.
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of geste (“tale”)
Etymology 3
From Old English ?est.
Noun
chest
- Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)
Old French
Adjective
chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)
- Picardy form of cist
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Verb
chest
- Aspirate mutation of cest.
Mutation
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strongbox
English
Etymology
strong +? box
Noun
strongbox (plural strongboxes)
- A sturdy box with a lock for storing valuables.
Synonyms
- (sturdy box with a lock): safe, safebox
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