Burgeon Definition

bʉrjən
bourgeoned, bourgeoning, burgeon, burgeoned, burgeoning, burgeons
verb
To put forth buds, shoots, etc.; sprout.
Webster's New World
To begin to grow or blossom.
American Heritage
To grow or develop rapidly; expand; proliferate; flourish.
The burgeoning suburbs.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.

Wiktionary

(intransitive, archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.

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noun

(obsolete) Bud, sprout, shoot.

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Other Word Forms of Burgeon

Noun

Singular:
burgeon
Plural:
burgeons

Origin of Burgeon

  • From Middle English burjon, burioun (“shoot, bud”), from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon "a bud"), from Old Frankish *burjo (“sprout, offshoot, descendant”), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to bear”). Akin to Old High German burjan (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”). More at bear.

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  • Middle English burgeonen from Old French borjoner from burjon a bud from Vulgar Latin burriō burriōn- from Late Latin burra a shaggy garment

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Alternate etymology derives Old French burjon (“bud”) from Vulgar Latin *burrionem, accusative of *burrio, from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff”) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).

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