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Antonyms for chest

Grammar : Noun
Spell : chest
Phonetic Transcription : tʃɛst

Definition of chest

Origin :
  • Old English cest "box, coffer, casket," from Proto-Germanic *kista (cf. Old Norse and Old High German kista, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, German kiste, Dutch kist), an early borrowing from Latin cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1520s, replacing breast (n.), on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs. Chest of drawers is from 1590s.
  • noun box for storage
  • noun upper front of body
Example sentences :
  • He had ample girth of chest at the cinches, where lung capacity is best measured.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Winkleman puffed out his chest and protruded his great beard.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • "Kill me, Managa," I cried, smiting my chest as I stood facing him.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • They had evidently just landed, and two men were lifting out a chest from the boat.
  • Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
  • She called Sami up to her, and showed him the corner in the chest where she had put his things.
  • Extract from : « What Sami Sings with the Birds » by Johanna Spyri
  • It lay untouched in the bottom of his chest, sailor-fashion.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • She silently dropped her money into the chest, and departed.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • In the workshop Bududreen and his men had easily located the chest.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • With difficulty they had saved the chest and dragged it after them into the mazes of the underbrush.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • And so it was that Bulan was not the only one who watched the hiding of the chest.
  • Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Synonyms for chest

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