breast

breast is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
2. noun. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
3. noun. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.
4. noun. The face of a coal working.
5. noun. The front of a furnace.
6. noun. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
7. noun. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
8. transitive verb. To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
9. noun. A torus.
10. noun. the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
11. noun. the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

    "he beat his breast in anger"

    Synonyms: chest

12. noun. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

    Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty

13. noun. meat carved from the breast of a fowl
14. verb. confront bodily

    "breast the storm"

    Synonyms: front

15. verb. reach the summit (of a mountain)

    "They breasted the mountain"

    "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

    Synonyms: summit

16. verb. meet at breast level

    "The runner breasted the tape"

Synonyms

chest, boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty, front, summit

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in breast:

barest, baster, bestar, restab, tabers, trabes

Common word forms

breasts, breasted, breaster, breastful, breasting, breastless

Words from these letters

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