English Explanatory Dictionary

bloom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  2. Flowers.
  3. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
  4. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
  5. Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
  6. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
  7. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
  8. An algal bloom.
  9. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  10. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
  11. A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
  12. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
verb
  1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
  3. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
  4. To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
  5. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
  6. To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
  7. To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
  8. To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
  9. To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
noun
  1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A ghost town in Otero County, Colorado.
  4. An unincorporated community and township in Ford County, Kansas.
  5. A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
  6. A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Kansas (2 or 3), Minnesota, Ohio (5), and Pennsylvania, listed under Bloom Township.

Pronunciation

/bluːm/ en-us-bloom.ogg

Word forms

bloom blooms blooming bloomed

Etymology

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Synonyms

blossom flower flush glow flourish thrive proof rehydrate

Derived words

abloom algal bloom Bloomfield bloom is off the peach bloom is off the rose bloomless bloomly bloomsome bloom tea bloomy checkerbloom choking bloom embloom in bloom iron bloom maybloom nanobloom phytoplankton bloom sunbloom superbloom violet bloom water bloom winterbloom zinc bloom bloomer late bloomer let a thousand flowers bloom night-blooming cereus night-blooming jasmine outbloom overbloom rebloom unbloomed bloomery blooming Bloomsday

Translations

Bulgarian: разцъфвам Esperanto: flori Finnish: kukkia German: blühen Northern Sami: lieđđut Spanish: florecer Ukrainian: цвісти́
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