hope chest

1. 1.

   chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage

   Synonymswedding chest

   Broaderchest

Questions about hope chest

What does hope chest mean?

hope chest means "chest for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage".

What is another word for hope chest?

Close synonyms include wedding chest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hope chest a common word?

hope chest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.