Definition of "bosom" []

• The chest of a human: He held the sleepy child to his bosom. (noun)
• A woman's breast or breasts. (noun)
• The part of a garment covering the chest or breasts. (noun)
• The security and closeness likened to being held in a warm familial embrace: We welcomed the stranger into the bosom of our family. (noun)
• The chest considered as the source of emotion. (noun)

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• "I don't know's he's what you call a bosom friend, and, as for his sleepin 'nights -- well, I never heard he couldn't do that, after he went to bed."
• "I have been bathing in the clear stream, at the end of my garden; the same stream in which I laved my careless bosom at thirteen; an idea which gave me inconceivable delight; and the more, as my bosom is as gay and tranquil at this moment as in those dear hours of chearfulness and innocence."
• "In North America and some countries in Europe, exposing the bosom is shockingly natural compared to Korea."