1. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
   "The baby latched onto her breast to feed";
   - bosom
    
2. The front of the body from the neck to the abdomen
   "he beat his breast in anger";
   - chest
    
3. The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
   "The robin's red breast is its most distinctive feature"
    
4. Meat carved from the breast of a fowl
   "He only ate breast from the turkey";
   - white meat

1. Confront bodily
   "breast the storm";
   - front
    
2. Meet at breast level
   "The runner breasted the tape"
    
3. Reach the summit (of a mountain)
   "They breasted the mountain";
   - summit

Derived forms: breasted, breasting, breasts

Type of: arrive at, attain, confront, converge, external body part, face, gain, helping, hit, make, mamma, mammary gland, meet, portion, reach, serving

Part of: adult female body, chest, chicken, pectus, poulet, thorax, turkey, volaille [archaic], woman's body

Encyclopedia: Breast