HOPE CHEST

Meaning of HOPE CHEST in English

(esp. formerly) a chest or the like in which a young woman collected clothing, linens, and other articles in anticipation of marriage.

[ 1910-15 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

HOPE CHEST — noun Date: 1911 a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HOPE CHEST — noun 1. : a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver, linen) kept in or as if …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HOPE CHEST — articles gathered by a woman in preparation or anticipation for marriage; trousseau
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HOPE CHEST — Date: 1911 : a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation of …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOPE CHEST — Function: noun Date: 1911 : a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HOPE CHEST — ■ noun N. Amer. a chest in which household linen is stored by a woman in preparation for marriage.
Concise Oxford English vocab
HOPE CHEST — [hope chest] n (1911): a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HOPE CHEST — noun ( NAmE ) items for the house collected by a woman, especially in the past, in preparation for her …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым (американизм) сундук с приданым
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HOPE CHEST — амер. сундук с приданым
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HOPE CHEST — амер. сундук с приданым
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
HOPE CHEST — амер. сундук с приданым
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HOPE CHEST — _n. сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
HOPE CHEST — n. сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
HOPE CHEST — _n. сундук с приданым
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
HOPE CHEST — сундук с приданым (американизм) сундук с приданым
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HOPE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Franklin John Hope Good Hope Cape of Hope diamond {{link=Hope Bob">Hope Bob Leslie Townes …
Английский словарь Британика
HOPE — I. ˈhōp verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian; akin to Old Frisian hopia to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHEST — I. ˈchest noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cest, cist chest, box, basket, coffin; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CHEST — (n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; …
Английский словарь Webster
CHEST — ( n. ) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HOPE — — hoper , n. — hopingly , adv. /hohp/ , n. , v. , hoped, hoping . n. 1. the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CHEST — — chestful /chest"fool/ , n. /chest/ , n. 1. Anat. the trunk of the body from the neck to the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HOPE — I. ˈhōp verb ( hoped ; hop·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hopian; akin to Middle High German …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOPE — noun a small bay; an inlet; a haven. 2. hope ·noun a sloping plain between mountain ridges. 3. hope ·noun …
Webster English vocab
CHEST — vi to place in a coffin. 2. chest ·noun a coffin. 3. chest ·noun strife; contention; controversy. 4. chest ·vi …
Webster English vocab
HOPE — [hope] vb hoped ; hop.ing [ME, fr. OE hopian; akin to MHG hoffen to hope] vi (bef. 12c) 1: to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CHEST — [chest] n [ME, fr. OE cest, cist chest, box, fr. L cista, fr. Gk kiste basket, hamper] (bef. 12c) 1 …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HOPE — in Christian thought, one of the three theological virtues, the others being faith and charity (love). It is distinct from …
Britannica English vocabulary
CHEST — the earliest form of container for storing clothes, documents, valuables, or other possessions, and the most important piece of furniture …
Britannica English vocabulary
HOPE
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHEST — / tʃest; NAmE / noun 1. the top part of the front of the body, between the neck and the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOPE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CHEST — chest S2 W3 /tʃest/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: cest , from Latin cista 'box, …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HOPE — n. & v. --n. 1 (in sing. or pl.; often foll. by of, that) expectation and desire combined, e.g. for …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CHEST — n. 1 a large strong box, esp. for storage or transport e.g. of blankets, tea, etc. 2 a the part …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HOPE — n. & v. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.; often foll. by of, that) expectation and desire combined, e.g. for …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CHEST — n. 1 a large strong box, esp. for storage or transport e.g. of blankets, tea, etc. 2 a the part …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HOPE — n. & v. --n. 1. (in sing. or pl.; often foll. by of, that) expectation and desire combined, e.g. for …
Oxford English vocab
CHEST — n.1 a large strong box, esp. for storage or transport e.g. of blankets, tea, etc. 2 a the part of …
Oxford English vocab
HOPE
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CHEST — ( chests) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your chest is the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOPE — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chance/hope/possibility of escape ▪ The river offered our only hope of escape. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CHEST — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bullet enters sb's chest/brain etc ▪ There was a scar where the bullet had …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HOPE — [verb]If you hope for something or hope that something will happen, you want something to happen and usually have a …
Cambridge English vocab
CHEST
Cambridge English vocab
HOPE — n. Cape of Good Hope Franklin John Hope Good Hope Cape of Hope diamond Hope Bob Leslie Townes Hope
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HOPE — Synonyms and related words : acceptation, acception, ache for, acquiescence, ambition, anticipate, anticipation, approach, ardor, aspire, aspire to, assumption, assurance, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HOPE
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CHEST — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ barrel , big , broad , huge , manly , massive , muscled , muscular , powerful …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HOPE — INDEX: 1. to hope that something will happen or that something is true 2. what you say when you hope …
Longman Activator English vocab
HOPE — See ↑ HOPE 1,3 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a glimmer of hope/a ray of hope • ↑ I hope not • …
Longman Activator English vocab
CHEST — n. 25B6; noun a bullet wound in the chest : BREAST, upper body, torso, trunk, ribcage; technical thorax. the matron …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HOPE+ — < language , functional programming > An extension of Hope implemented in the Alvey Flagship project at Imperial College . …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
HOPE — < language > A functional programming language designed by R.M. Burstall, D.B. MacQueen and D.T. Sanella at University of Edinburgh …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
CHEST — n. 1 box, coffer, trunk, strongbox, caddy, casket, case It took four men to carry the chest outside, where we …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HOPE — verb 1 BAD : I hope that one day things would change. GOOD : I hope that one day things …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
HOPE — I 1. сущ. надежда (for, in, of) in, with the hope ≈ в надежде beyond, past hope ≈ выше всяких …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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