Meanings
- not comparableHaving a breast, or breasts.
He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11 - in compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified kind of breast or covering.
The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.
1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of breast
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*breustą
- Proto-West Germanic*breust
- Old Englishbrēost
- Middle Englishbrest
- Englishbreast
- Englishbreasted
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
breasted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breasted
“breasted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breasted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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