Definitions for chest

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IPA: /tʃɛst/

Chest is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in chest (cehst).

Definitions for chest

noun

1. Anatomy. the trunk of the body from the neck to the abdomen; thorax.
2. a box, usually with a lid, for storage, safekeeping of valuables, etc.:
3. the place where the funds of a public institution or charitable organization are kept; treasury; coffer.
4. the funds themselves.
5. a box in which certain goods, as tea, are packed for transit.
6. the quantity contained in such a box:
7. chest of drawers.
8. a small cabinet, especially one hung on a wall, for storage, as of toiletries and medicines:

Idioms

1. get (something) off one's chest, Informal. to relieve oneself of (problems, troubling thoughts, etc.) by revealing them to someone.
2. play it close to the chest. vest (def 16).

Origin of chest

before 900; Middle English; Old English cest, cist Latin cista Greek kístē box

Examples for chest

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.

Winkleman puffed out his chest and protruded his great beard.

"Kill me, Managa," I cried, smiting my chest as I stood facing him.

It lay untouched in the bottom of his chest, sailor-fashion.

They had evidently just landed, and two men were lifting out a chest from the boat.

Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’

I received many bruises on my collarbones, neck, chest, and shoulders.

At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.

He had ample girth of chest at the cinches, where lung capacity is best measured.