blossom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English blosme, from Old English blostm, blostma, from Proto-Germanic *blōstmô (compare West Frisian blossem, Dutch bloesem; related to *blōstaz [compare German Blust]), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s- (“bloom, flower”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, to thrive”). Cognate with Albanian bleron (“to blossom, to thrive”), Latin flōs (“flower”), Flōra (“goddess of plants”). See more at blow (etymology 4).
Inflected forms:
form: blossoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blasom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blossoms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blossoming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blossomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blossomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The blossom has come early this year.
And on the moꝛowe / Moſes went in to the tabernacle: and beholde / the rod of Aaron of the houſſe of Leui was budded ⁊ bare bloſomes and almondes.
Foppiſh and fantaſtick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themſelves. Extinguiſh Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Bloſſoms will fall of themſelves, when the Root that nouriſhes them is deſtroyed.
Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
gloss: The state or season of producing such flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The orchard is in blossom.
Down by the River Wye, among plum-trees in blossom, Noel had laid her baby in a hammock, and stood reading a letter: […]
gloss: A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, / When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, / Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; / […] long did I love this lady, / Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; / With all the duty of my soul, I served her.
gloss: The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For colour he [Nobs, a horse] was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt sorrel, starling-colour, tyger-colour, wolf-colour, deer-colour, cream-colour, white, grey or black. Neither was he green, like the horse which the Emperor [Septimus] Severus took from the Parthians, […]
gloss: To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ANd the Loꝛde ſpake vnto Moſes ſayenge: ſpeake vnto the childern of Iſrael and take of them / foꝛ euery pꝛyncypall houſſe a rod / of their pꝛinces ouer the houſſes of their fathers: euen .xij. roddes / and wꝛyte euery mans name apon his rod. […] And his rod whom I choſe / ſhall bloſſome: So I wyll make ceaſe from me the grudgynges of the childern of Iſrael which they grudge agenſt you.
The Utricularia vulgaris or bladder-wort, a yellow pea-like flower, has blossomed in stagnant pools.
gloss: To begin to thrive or flourish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A quiet, studious man, rich in the wisdom that is better than learning, the charity which calls all mankind "brother," the piety that blossoms into character, making it august and lovely.
Since I came back from Pomona I have done many drawings to illustrate the Inferno of Dante [Alighieri] and I find my old Italian love blossoming all over again for this greatest of all master poets, bar none.
In February, Mswati announced that he had recovered from Covid-19 after undergoing treatment “for a couple of days” with an undisclosed antiviral medication from Taiwan. Eswatini enjoys a blossoming diplomatic tie with Taiwan — currently the East Asian country’s only ally in Africa.
Derived words: apple blossom
apple blossom weevil
blossomcrown
blossomed
blossom-end rot
blossomest
blossom-faced
blossom-headed
blossoming
blossomish
blossomless
blossomly
blossom-nosed
blossom out
blossom-rock
blossomry
blossomy
blue blossom
blueblossom
cherry blossom
cherry blossom front
crash blossom
emblossom
imblossom
gin blossom
grog-blossom
in blossom
lime blossom
mayblossom
May blossom
may-blossom
orange blossom
out-blossom
out-blossoming
peach blossom
pease-blossom
plum blossom
pricot blossom
rape blossom
reblossom
rum-blossom
snow-blossom
sperm blossom
sperm-blossom
water blossom pea
blossom forth
blossomingly
outblossom
unblossomed
unblossoming
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: endë
lang: Albanian
word: bleron
lang: Arabic
word: زَهْرَة
roman: zahra
lang: Armenian
word: ծաղիկ
roman: caġik
lang: Belarusian
word: кве́тка
roman: kvjétka
lang: Bulgarian
word: цвят
roman: cvjat
lang: Burmese
word: ပွင့်
roman: pwang.
lang: Catalan
word: flor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 花
roman: huā
lang: Cornish
word: bleujen
lang: Czech
word: květ
lang: Dutch
word: bloesem
lang: Esperanto
word: floro
lang: Estonian
word: õis
lang: Finnish
word: kukat
lang: Finnish
word: kukinta
lang: French
word: fleur
lang: Galician
word: fror
lang: Galician
word: frol
lang: Georgian
word: ყვავილი
roman: q̇vavili
lang: German
word: Blüte
lang: Greek
word: ανθός
roman: anthós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄνθος
roman: ánthos
lang: Hebrew
word: פריחה
lang: Hindi
word: मुकुल
roman: mukul
lang: Hindi
word: फूल
roman: phūl
lang: Hittite
word: 𒀀𒇷𒂖
roman: a-le-el
lang: Hungarian
word: virág
lang: Italian
word: bocciolo
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: blasam
lang: Jamaican Creole
word: blazam
lang: Japanese
word: 花
roman: haná
lang: Korean
word: 꽃
roman: kkot
lang: Kyrgyz
word: гүл
roman: gül
lang: Latin
word: flōs
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Bléi
lang: Macedonian
word: цвет
roman: cvet
lang: Māori
word: puanga
lang: Māori
word: pua
lang: Māori
word: puāwai
lang: Mazanderani
word: وشکو
roman: vëšku
lang: Middle English
word: blosme
lang: Old English
word: blostma
lang: Persian
word: شکوفه
roman: šokufe
lang: Polish
word: kwiat
lang: Portuguese
word: flor
lang: Romanian
word: floare
lang: Russian
word: цвето́к
roman: cvetók
lang: Sanskrit
word: पुष्प
roman: puṣpa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: blàth
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dìthean
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: flùr
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бехар
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: цвет
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: цвијет
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: цват
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: behar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cvet
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cvijet
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: cvat
lang: Sicilian
word: zàgara
lang: Slovak
word: kvet
lang: Slovene
word: cvet
lang: Spanish
word: flor
lang: Swedish
word: blomma
lang: Tajik
word: шукуфа
roman: šukufa
lang: Thai
word: ดอกไม้
roman: dɔ̀ɔk-máai
lang: Thai
word: ดอก
roman: dɔ̀ɔk
lang: Tibetan
word: མེ་ཏོག
roman: me tog
lang: Turkish
word: çiçek
lang: Turkish
word: bahar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چیچك
roman: çiçek
lang: Ukrainian
word: кві́тка
roman: kvítka
lang: Ukrainian
word: цвіт
roman: cvit
lang: Ukrainian
word: цвіт
roman: cvit
lang: Vietnamese
word: bông
lang: Zulu
word: imbali
lang: Zulu
word: umqhakazo