Bloom definition
An example of a bloom is a bud on a rose.
An example of a bloom is a glowing complexion.
A rose in full bloom.
Rains that made the yard bloom.
The cherry trees are in bloom.
The bloom of youth.
The rose-red cobalt bloom.
Genius blooming under a great teacher.
Origin of bloom
- Middle English blome lump of metal from Old English blōma bhel-3 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English blom from Old Norse blōm bhel-3 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (compare West Frisian blom, Low German Bloom, Dutch bloem, German Blume, Danish blomme, Swedish blomma), from *blōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bleh₃- (“to thrive, flower, bloom”) (compare Irish blath (“leaf”), Latin folium (“leaf”), Albanian bilonjë (“twig, branch”), Ancient Greek [script?] (phýllon, “leaf”)). More at blow.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”)
From Wiktionary
- From Old English blōma
From Wiktionary