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Noun

1. (countable)Category:Countable nouns (usually plural) A woman's breasts are the two soft round parts on her chest.

   She learned that the cancer in her breast had spread to her leg.

   Some mothers start to lose their breast milk two or three months after a child is born.

2. (countable)Category:Countable nouns Your breast is the area between your neck and your belly.

   A warm feeling spread in his breast as she stepped closer.

3. (uncountable)Category:Uncountable nouns Breast is bird meat that comes from the front of the bird

   Skinless, boneless chicken breasts have very little flavour when grilled.

4. (countable)Category:Countable nouns A bird's breast is the front of its body below its head.

   The Robin is a plump bird with bright orange-red breast.

5. (countable)Category:Countable nouns The breast of a jacket or shirt is the part that goes over your breast.

   My father pulled a cigarette from his breast pocket.

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  A woman's breasts
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  A bird with a red breast
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  A roast turkey with a white pin in its breast

Verb

1. (transitive)Category:Transitive verbs If you breast a hill, mountain, etc., you come to the top of it.

   He breasted the hill and saw the town in front of him.