English dictionary
breast
nounPronunciation
bɹɛst
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
noun
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
noun
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
verb
- confront bodily
verb
- reach the summit (of a mountain)
verb
- meet at breast level
Example sentences
he beat his breast in anger
breast the storm
They breasted the mountain
Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
The runner breasted the tape