'Bloom' definitions:
Definition of 'bloom'
From: WordNet
noun
The organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: blooming, bloom]
noun
Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom]
noun
The best time of youth [syn: bloom, bloom of youth, salad days]
noun
A rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness]
noun
The period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush]
noun
A powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence, bloom]
verb
Definition of 'Bloom'
From: GCIDE
- Bloom \Bloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bloomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooming.]
- 1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. [1913 Webster]
- A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers. [1913 Webster]
- A better country blooms to view,
- Beneath a brighter sky. --Logan. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bloom'
From: GCIDE
- Bloom \Bloom\, n. [OE. blome, fr. Icel. bl?m, bl?mi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. bl?ma, OS. bl?mo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. bl?wan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.]
- 1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. [1913 Webster]
- The rich blooms of the tropics. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. [1913 Webster]
- Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow. [1913 Webster]
- A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bloom'
From: GCIDE
- Bloom \Bloom\, v. t.
- 1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Charitable affection bloomed them. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. --Keats. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bloom'
From: GCIDE
- Bloom \Bloom\, n. [AS. bl?ma a mass or lump, [imac]senes bl?ma a lump or wedge of iron.] (Metal.) (a) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bloom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- anthesis,
- attain majority,
- attractiveness,
- bake,
- batten,
- be in bloom,
- be in flower,
- be in heat,
- beam,
- bear fruit,
- beauteousness,
- beautifulness,
- beauty,
- beauty unadorned,
- beggar description,
- black spot,
- blaze,
- blooming,
- blooping,
- blossom,
- blossoming,
- blow,
- blowing,
- blush,
- blushing,
- boil,
- boom,
- bring to maturity,
- broil,
- budtime,
- burgeon,
- burn,
- burst into bloom,
- burst with health,
- charm,
- choke,
- coloring,
- combust,
- come of age,
- come to fruition,
- come to maturity,
- cook,
- crimsoning,
- definition,
- develop,
- early years,
- effloresce,
- efflorescence,
- elegance,
- emotional health,
- enjoy good health,
- evolute,
- evolve,
- exquisiteness,
- fatten,
- feel fine,
- feel good,
- fieriness,
- fitness,
- flame,
- flame up,
- flare,
- flare up,
- fledge,
- flicker,
- floreate,
- florescence,
- floret,
- floriculture,
- floscule,
- flourish,
- flower,
- flowerage,
- floweret,
- flowering,
- flowering time,
- flush,
- flushing,
- fringe area,
- fry,
- full bloom,
- gardening,
- gasp,
- ghost,
- glow,
- grace,
- granulation,
- grid,
- grow,
- grow fat,
- grow up,
- handsomeness,
- hard shadow,
- health,
- hectic,
- hectic flush,
- horticulture,
- hortorium,
- Hygeia,
- image,
- incandesce,
- incandescence,
- jeunesse,
- juvenescence,
- juvenility,
- keep fit,
- knock dead,
- leave the nest,
- loveliness,
- mantling,
- maturate,
- mature,
- mellow,
- mental health,
- multiple image,
- my burning youth,
- my green age,
- never feel better,
- noise,
- pant,
- parch,
- physical condition,
- physical fitness,
- picture,
- picture noise,
- picture shifts,
- posy,
- prettiness,
- prime of life,
- progress,
- pulchritude,
- radiate heat,
- rain,
- reach its season,
- reach manhood,
- reach maturity,
- reach twenty-one,
- reach voting age,
- reddening,
- redness,
- ripe,
- ripen,
- roast,
- rolling,
- rosiness,
- rubefacient,
- rubescence,
- rufescence,
- salad days,
- scald,
- scanning pattern,
- scintillation,
- scorch,
- season,
- seedtime of life,
- seethe,
- settle down,
- shading,
- shimmer with heat,
- shine,
- simmer,
- smolder,
- smother,
- snow,
- snowstorm,
- spark,
- springtime of life,
- stay in shape,
- stay young,
- steam,
- stew,
- stifle,
- suffocate,
- sweat,
- swelter,
- temper,
- tender age,
- tenderness,
- the beautiful,
- thrive,
- toast,
- toga virilis,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- wax,
- wear well,
- well-being,
- whiteness,
- wildflower,
- young blood,
- youngness,
- youth,
- youthfulness,
- youthhead,
- youthhood,
- youthiness
Words containing 'Bloom'
- Bloomed,
- Blooming,
- Bloomingly,
- Blooming Grove,
- Blooming Prairie,
- Blooming Valley,
- Canker bloom,
- Cobalt bloom,
- Winter bloom,
- Zinc bloom,
- bloom of youth,
- full bloom,
- Blooming Grove, TX,
- Blooming Prairie, MN,
- Blooming Valley, PA,
- Full-bloomed,
- Night-blooming,
- autumn-blooming,
- early-blooming,
- fall-blooming,
- late-blooming,
- spring-blooming,
- summer-blooming,
- winter-blooming,
- Night-blooming cereus,
- blooming-fool begonia,
- fall-blooming hydrangea,
- late-spring-blooming