Bloom Definition

blo͝om
bloomed, blooming, blooms
noun
blooms
Flowers collectively, as of a plant.
Webster's New World
Something resembling the flower of a plant.
American Heritage
A flower; blossom.
Webster's New World
The state or time of flowering.
Webster's New World
A state or time of best health or greatest beauty, vigor, or freshness; prime.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
verb
bloomed, blooming, blooms
To bear a flower or flowers; blossom.
Webster's New World
To support plant life in abundance.
Rains that made the yard bloom.
American Heritage
To glow with color, health, etc.
Webster's New World
To reach a prime condition, as in health, vigor, beauty, perfection, etc.; flourish.
Webster's New World
To cause to bloom, flower, or flourish.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Bloom

Noun

Singular:
bloom
Plural:
blooms

Origin of Bloom

  • 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

  • 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 bloom (“a blossom”)

    From Wiktionary

  • From Old English blōma

    From Wiktionary

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