"forebreast" meaning in English

See forebreast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: forebreasts [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English forebrest, equivalent to fore- + breast. Cognate with Scots forebreist. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|forebrest}} Middle English forebrest, {{prefix|en|fore|breast}} fore- + breast, {{cog|sco|forebreist}} Scots forebreist Head templates: {{en-noun}} forebreast (plural forebreasts)
  1. (British, mining) forefield Tags: British Categories (topical): Mining
    Sense id: en-forebreast-en-noun-R35D3sy0 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with fore-: 83 17 Topics: business, mining
  2. the anterior part of the chest especially of a quadruped
    Sense id: en-forebreast-en-noun-1aUfqMVW

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for forebreast meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forebrest"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forebrest",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "breast"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + breast",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "forebreist"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots forebreist",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forebrest, equivalent to fore- + breast. Cognate with Scots forebreist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forebreasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forebreast (plural forebreasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mining",
          "orig": "en:Mining",
          "parents": [
            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with fore-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forefield"
      ],
      "id": "en-forebreast-en-noun-R35D3sy0",
      "links": [
        [
          "mining",
          "mining#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "forefield",
          "forefield"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, mining) forefield"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the anterior part of the chest especially of a quadruped"
      ],
      "id": "en-forebreast-en-noun-1aUfqMVW"
    }
  ],
  "word": "forebreast"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with fore-"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "forebrest"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English forebrest",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fore",
        "3": "breast"
      },
      "expansion": "fore- + breast",
      "name": "prefix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "forebreist"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots forebreist",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English forebrest, equivalent to fore- + breast. Cognate with Scots forebreist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "forebreasts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "forebreast (plural forebreasts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "en:Mining"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forefield"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mining",
          "mining#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "forefield",
          "forefield"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, mining) forefield"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "mining"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the anterior part of the chest especially of a quadruped"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "forebreast"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.