chest, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

chest (chests plural )

1 n-count Your chest is the top part of the front of your body where your ribs, lungs, and heart are.
He crossed his arms over his chest...

2 n-count A chest is a large, heavy box used for storing things. (=trunk)
At the very bottom of the chest were his carving tools.

3 If you get something off your chest, you talk about something that has been worrying you.
♦ get something off your chest phrase
(Antonym: bottle up) I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.

chest of drawers (chests of drawers plural )A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things. n-count

tea chest (tea chests plural )A tea chest is a large wooden box in which tea is packed when it is exported. People also use tea chests for putting things in when they move from one house to another.
(BRIT) n-count

treasure chest (treasure chests plural )

1 n-count A treasure chest is a box containing treasure.

2 n-count If you describe something as a treasure chest of a particular thing, you mean that it is very good source of that thing.
This book is a treasure chest of information.

war chest (war chests plural )A war chest is a fund to finance a project such as a political campaign. n-count
Governor Caperton has the largest campaign war chest.