Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chested

/ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English

Syllables: chest-ed
IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of chest

adj

Having a chest (with a specified quality).

Example Sentences

"Jenny was the most flat-chested of her friends."
"Spare, like Henry the Fifth, almost to the manly defect of leanness, his proportions were slight to those which gave such portly majesty to the vast-chested Edward, but they evinced the promise of almost equal strength […]"
"Beholding Ajax then, the aged king / Asked yet again: "Who is that other chief / Of the Achaians, tall, and large of limb,— / Taller and broader-chested than the rest?""
"Loud greetings followed, and another burst of laughter, heavy, deep-chested and glad."
"From behind him there emerged a broad-chested guard with a long black truncheon in his hand."
"The schoolmaster himself was very thin, black and pigeon-chested under a woollen pullover."

Etymology

From chest + -ed.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/
British English: /ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/

Derived Forms

barechested chestedness

Phrases

barrel-chested flat-chested grey-chested babbler pigeon-chested red-chested cuckoo rufous-chested sparrowhawk

Rhymes With

invested contested rested congested ingested nested breasted vested crested bested jested

Questions

How do you pronounce chested?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/.
What does chested mean?: simple past and past participle of chest
Where does chested come from?: From chest + -ed.

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