chest
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
Noun 4 meanings
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
“The clothes are kept in a chest.”
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
“You can take the money from the chest.”
A chest of drawers.
The portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.
“Holonyms: torso, trunk < body”
Verb 3 meanings
To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
To deposit in a chest.
To handle, deal with.
Etymology
From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”).
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CHEST at a glance
CHEST has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + E 1 + S 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,821 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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