chest
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
Example
“The clothes are kept in a chest.”
Other meanings
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
“You can take the money from the chest.”
A chest of drawers.
A kind of
- box
Kinds of chest
- ammunition chest
- hope chest
- pix
- sea chest
- tea chest
- tool chest
- toy box
- treasure chest
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "ċest".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “chest” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.