OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8027

chest

/t͡ʃɛst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
arca • baúl • cofre
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
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 coul…
The clothes are kept in a chest.
caja
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
You can take the money from the chest.
cómoda
A chest of drawers.
pecho • tórax
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
She had a sudden pain in her chest.
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