breast – English noun declension

English noun forms of breast

Noun: breast
Singularbreast
Pluralbreasts

Sample Sentences

  • Tanya’s breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.
  • Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 219:]
  • ‘She has big breasts’, Chuck said. ‘Who? Patty? Oh yes.’ Hentman nodded. ‘Well, it’s that operation they give in Hollywood and New York. It’s more the rage now than the dilation, and she’s had that done, too.’ [1964, Philip K. Dick, “TWELVE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 173:]
  • Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness. [2023 July 21, Amanda Musa, “The FDA approved the US’ first over-the-counter birth control pill. What happens next?”, in CNN:]
  • The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon. [1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:]
  • By the time he reached the War Memorial damp had soaked through the breasts of his shirt. [1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 45:]
  • She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.
  • He has a loyal breast. [1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • […]Thou best know’st
  • What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans
  • Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
  • Of ever-angry bears—it was a torment
  • To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax
  • Could not again undo. It was mine art,
  • When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
  • The pine and let thee out. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • Muſick has Charms to ſooth a ſavage Breaſt, / To ſoften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. [1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:]
  • The robin has a red breast.
  • Would you like breast or wing?
  • chimney breast
  • plough breast
  • If you burn wood on its own, the flue gases are cooler than from a coal fire. This can result in tars condensing out within the parging and brickwork of the flue, sometimes causing brown or yellow staining on upstairs chimney breasts. [2015 April 7, Jeff Howell, “The secret of longer lasting tiles [print version: How to avoid cracking up, 4 April 2015, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 22 Apr 2015:]
  • Mountains on whose barren breast / The labouring clouds do often rest. [a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:]
  • […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […] [1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:]
  • By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. [c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *breustą
3. Proto-West Germanic *breust
4. Old English brēost
5. Middle English brest
6. English breast
7. From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust. See: Middle English Nouns 'brest', Danish Nouns 'bryst', Swedish Nouns 'bröst', Dutch Nouns 'borst', German Nouns 'Brust'.

Verbs referencing "breast"

Danish Nouns bryst, Latin Nouns frutex, Latin Nouns bruscum.