breast
the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen
How often you will meet it
Rank 976 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,763 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen also: chest he beat his breast in anger
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman also: bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl also: white meat
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
verb
- meet at breast level The runner breasted the tape
- reach the summit (of a mountain) also: summit They breasted the mountainMany mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit
- confront bodily also: front breast the storm
breast in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I raised the gun, covered the bear's breast with the sight, and let drive.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies-- Shed no tear.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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That selfsame hand that thee from stalk did wring, Hath rent my breast and robbed my heart from me.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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The load tore a part of his clothes from his body, one shot going through his arm and entering his breast.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1