breast
[noun]
Synonyms: bosom, bust, chest, front, teat, udder

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I. breast¹ S3 /brest/ noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: breost]

1. WOMAN’S BODY [countable] one of the two round raised parts on a woman’s chest that produce milk when she has a baby:
These bras are specially designed for women with large breasts.
breast milk
breast cancer
bare-breasted/small-breasted etc

2. CHEST [countable] written the part of your body between your neck and your stomach:
Dick cradled her photograph against his breast.

3. BIRD [countable] the front part of a bird’s body, below its neck:
a robin with a red breast
red-breasted/white-breasted etc
red-breasted geese

4. MEAT [uncountable] meat that comes from the front part of the body of a bird such as a chicken:
turkey breast

5. CLOTHES [countable usually singular] the part of a jacket, shirt etc that covers the top part of your chest ⇒ double-breasted, single-breasted

6. make a clean breast of it/things to admit that you have done something wrong

7. EMOTIONS [countable] literary where your feelings of sadness, love, anger, fear etc come from:
a troubled breast
⇒ beat your breast at beat¹(31), ⇒ chimney breast

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II. breast² verb [transitive] formal

1. to reach the top of a hill or slope

2. to push against something with your chest

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breast
noun
I. part of a woman's body
ADJ. ample, big, full, heavy, large | little, small | bare, naked | firm, pert, pointed | round, shapely | sagging
BREAST + NOUN cancer | screening | milk
PHRASES put a baby to the breast (= to feed a baby from the breast), take the breast (= to feed from the breast)

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breast
II. your chest
PHRASES beat your breast, hold/clutch sb/sth to your breast He held the letter to his breast.

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breast
brest
See: make a clean breast of

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