[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/breast/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [B](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/b/) / breast # breast noun (a breast, breasts); verb (breast — formal or literary) «breast» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. One of the two soft round parts on the front of a woman's chest that can make milk to feed a baby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#m1) 2. The front of the chest of a person or animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#m2) 3. (cooking) The meat from the chest of a bird, like chicken breast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#m3) 4. (literary) The heart, as a place of feelings ("hope in his breast"). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#m4) 5. (verb) To reach the top of a hill or push through something with your chest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#m5) ### In the lessons Used in science and health lessons (mammals feed babies breast milk), cooking (chicken breast), swimming (breaststroke) and old stories and poems for the chest or heart. Phrases: breastfeed, breaststroke, chicken breast, robin redbreast, make a clean breast of it (confess everything). ### Examples - Mammals feed their babies with milk from the breast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x1) - We had chicken breast with vegetables for tea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x2) - The robin has a red breast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x3) - I learned breaststroke at swimming lessons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x4) - She held the kitten to her breast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x5) - He decided to make a clean breast of it and tell the truth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x6) - The runners breasted the hill and saw the finish line. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x7) - An arrow stuck in his breast! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/#x8) ### Note Countable: breasts. Pronounced BREST (rhymes with rest). A normal science and body word, not rude; use it calmly and correctly. Idiom "make a clean breast of it" = confess everything. ## In Jewish tradition Here the breast is the chest of an animal offering, which was waved before God and given to the priests as their portion. In the later books it is also the human breast, where a baby is nursed, and a part of the body in mourning and in love poetry. **Interpretation.** Tradition says the breast and thigh of peace offerings belong to the priests, as part of what God gave them for their service. In Song of Songs the breasts are part of a poem of love, and the tradition reads that book as a picture of God's love for Israel. Isaiah speaks of people smiting their breasts in grief. ### Examples - And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar. (Torah LEV.9.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x1) - And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded. (Torah LEV.9.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x2) - And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. (Torah LEV.7.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x3) - And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x4) - Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine; (Prophets ISA.32.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x5) - Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle. (Writings SNG.7.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/#x6) ### Note Countable: breasts. Pronounced BREST (rhymes with rest). A normal science and body word, not rude; use it calmly and correctly. Idiom "make a clean breast of it" = confess everything. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «breast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«breast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/breast.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «breast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/breast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«breast» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/breast.html) on Mova free.