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bloom¹ Definition

bloom (blo̵̅o̅m)

noun

  1. a flower; blossom
  2. flowers collectively, as of a plant
  3. the state or time of flowering
  4. a state or time of best health or greatest beauty, vigor, or freshness; prime
  5. a youthful, healthy glow (of cheeks, skin, etc.)
  6. the grayish, powdery coating on various fruits, as the plum, grape, etc., and on some leaves
  7. any similar coating, as on new coins
  8. a mass of planktonic algae in lakes, ponds, or the sea, as in the development of red tides

Etymology: ME blom < ON blomi, flowers and foliage on trees < IE *bhlō-, var. of base *bhel-, to swell, sprout > blade, bleed, L flos, flower, Gr phyllon, leaf

intransitive verb

  1. to bear a flower or flowers; blossom
  2. to reach a prime condition, as in health, vigor, beauty, perfection, etc.; flourish
  3. to glow with color, health, etc.

transitive verb

Archaic to cause to bloom, flower, or flourish

bloom² Definition

bloom (blo̵̅o̅m)

noun

  1. a spongy mass of wrought iron ready for further working
  2. a thick bar of iron or steel obtained by rolling or hammering an ingot

Etymology: OE bloma, lump of metal

bloom Synonyms

bloom

n.

flower, blossom, floweret, efflorescence; see flower 1.

bloom Synonyms

bloom

v.

flower, blossom, effloresce, burst into bloom, open, bud, sprout, burgeon, prosper, grow, develop, wax, bear fruit, thrive, germinate, flourish, be in health, fructify, tassel out, display petals, blow, come out in flower, put forth flowers, be in flower, be in the flowering stage.

bloom Usage Examples

Object

  • rose: You are as sweet as the smell of recently bloomed roses at spring time.
  • flower: The park was filled with blooming flowers in an endless array.

Converse of object

  • scent: They are, however, quite hardy and have large well scented blooms.
  • occur: These roses will have simultaneously occurring blooms in each truss.

Adjective modifier

  • algal: The problem of algal blooms may need to be resolved.
  • fragrant: Clusters of medium sized white very fragrant blooms, each having a hint of cream at the heart of the flower.
  • waxy: The waxy white blooms and spearheaded leaves of the calla lily stand for radiant beauty and sophistication.
  • harmful: The Plan calls for a coordinated response to support state and local efforts during events such as outbreaks of harmful algal blooms.
  • toxic: Toxic bloom on Llyn Tegid in 1995 Llangower suffers from lakeside erosion.
  • exotic: Here you can wander among the beautiful and exotic blooms around a rain forest pool.

Adjective complement

  • marvelous: Come the summer Gorton's going to be blooming marvelous!

Noun used with modifier

  • plankton: I don't want to be recycled into a plankton bloom, Mom!
  • phytoplankton: Phytoplankton blooms are discussed, from the normal annual blooms to harmful algal blooms ( HABs ).
  • coccolithophore: Coccolithophore bloom class = white, non- bloom class = blue, land = green, black = lack of data.
  • orlando: Whos cuter outta chad michael murray and orlando bloom.
  • algae: They now think she could have become intoxicated by a natural toxin found in algae blooms.
  • flower: For instance we can only discover the best ways of life by letting a thousand flowers bloom.

Preposition: in

  • autumn: They will bloom now in the autumn, in the milder spells during the winter, and get better and better into the spring.

Preposition: of

  • phytoplankton: Eutrophication encourages population blooms of phytoplankton, some of which produce highly toxic substances.
  • algae: As in most recent years there was a bloom of blue-green algae on the lakes.
Bloom Quotes

Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart; liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

bloom Quotes

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

—Thomas, (Philip) Edward

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment whiteöthen melts for ever.

—Burns, Robert

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

—Moore,Thomas

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu'o'care!

—Burns, Robert

Charm†it's a sort of a bloom on a woman.If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

—Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)

To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.

—Collins,William

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom isgone.We are the fruit thereof.

—Stevens,Wallace

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

—Constantinus

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

—Randall, Dudley

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloomisgone.Thewholetheoryof moderneducationis radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, of human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

—Milton,John

So have I heard the cuckoo's parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: 'The bloom isgone, and with the bloom go I.'

—Arnold, Matthew