Dictionary definition · breast
noun
- the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen"he beat his breast in anger"
- either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- meat carved from the breast of a fowl
- the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
verb
- meet at breast level"The runner breasted the tape"
- reach the summit (of a mountain)"They breasted the mountain"
- confront bodily"breast the storm"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).