English Explanatory Dictionary

bosom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
  2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
  4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
  5. A breast, one of a woman's breasts
  6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
  7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.
adj
  1. In a very close relationship.
verb
  1. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
  2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
  3. To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
  4. To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

Pronunciation

/ˈbʊz(ə)m/ /ˈbʌz(ə)m/ en-us-bosom.ogg

Word forms

bosom bosoms bosome bosoming bosomed

Etymology

From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Synonyms

breasts

Derived words

Abraham's bosom bird in the bosom book-bosomed bosom buddy bosom friend bosomless bosomy cherish a snake in one's bosom disbosom full-bosomed in Abraham's bosom monobosom nourish a viper in one's bosom take to one's bosom unbosom

Translations

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