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Definition chest

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ?est, ?ist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-Germanic *kist? (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh? (“woven container”). Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

  1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
  2. (obsolete) A coffin.
  3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
  4. A chest of drawers.
  5. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
  6. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

  1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
  2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ??ast, ??as (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian k?se (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German k?sa (“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

  1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

Results 312 Words with the letters CHEST

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CHEATS 11
CHERTS 11
CHESTS 11
CHESTY 13
CHETHS 13
CHUTES 12
ETCHES 11
ETHICS 11
ITCHES 11
SACHET 11
SCATHE 11
SCYTHE 13
SKETCH 15
STENCH 12
TACHES 11
TUSCHE 12
WECHTS 14
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ETCH 9
ETHS 6
HEST 6
HETS 6
SECT 7
TECH 9
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HES 5
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SEC 6
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SHE 5
THE 5
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ET 2
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