• IPA: /t͡ʃɛst/

chest (plural chests)

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

   The clothes are kept in a chest.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:

     But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, […].

2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

   You can take the money from the chest.

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.

   She had a sudden pain in her chest.

6. A hit or blow made with one's chest.

   He scored with a chest into the goal.

• (the thorax) breast
• (box) trunk

• French: coffre
• German: Truhe, Koffer
• Italian: cassa, cassapanca, cofano, baule
• Portuguese: baú
• Russian: сунду́к
• Spanish: arca, baúl

• German: Kasse
• Italian: fondi, cassa, tesoro
• Russian: сокро́вищница
• Spanish: caja

• German: Kommode
• Italian: cassettone, comò
• Portuguese: cômoda
• Russian: комо́д
• Spanish: cómoda

• French: poitrine
• German: Brust, Brustkorb, Thorax
• Italian: petto, torace
• Portuguese: peito, tórax
• Russian: грудь
• Spanish: pecho, tórax

chest (chests, present participle chesting; 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.
   • Bible, Genesis 1:26

     He dieth and is chested.

chest (plural chests)

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

1. (after a qualification) University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.