Blossom
['blɒs(ə)m] or ['blɑsəm]
Definition
(verb.) develop or come to a promising stage; 'Youth blossomed into maturity'.
Edited by Jeremy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
(n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
(n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color.
(n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
(n.) To flourish and prosper.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Flower, bloom, blow.
v. n. Flower, bloom, blow.
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Definition
n. a flower-bud the flower that precedes fruit.—v.i. to put forth blossoms or flowers: to flourish and prosper.—n. Bloss′oming.—adj. Bloss′omy covered with flowers flowery.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time of pleasing prosperity is nearing you.
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Examples
- Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All amongst the trees he saw moving objects, red, like poppies, or white, like may-blossom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Even the land about Chat Moss was bought up and improved, and all along the line what had been waste stretches began to blossom into towns and villages. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- With these and modern forms of artesian wells the deserts have literally been made to blossom as the rose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It did not appear to me that he took much notice of it, but before he went he asked my mother to give him a bit of the blossom. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But if you want a dog to race with, Little Blossom, he has lived too well for that, and I'll give you one. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Look what a beautiful blossom! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary wilderness: for me it blossomed like a rose. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The buds from which the plant men blossomed resembled large nuts about a foot in diameter, divided by double partition walls into four sections. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- This was, however, not the first nor the last time that scientific men had predicted impracticabilities with electricity which afterwards blossomed into full success. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Valrosa well deserved its name, for in that climate of perpetual summer roses blossomed everywhere. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here you saw the sweet azure of blue-bells, and recognized in pearl-white blossoms, spangling the grass, a humble type of some starlit spot in space. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wait a minute, and I will bring you some pomegranate blossoms. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As a consequence, the wilderness blossoms as a rose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In California orange honey we get the delicate aroma of the orange blossoms, and the water-white honey from the mountain sage has its characteristic flavor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- While he was yet undecided, she had quitted England; the news of his marriage reached her, and her hopes, poorly nurtured blossoms, withered and fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A certain favoured district in the West Riding of Yorkshire could boast three rods of Aaron blossoming within a circuit of twenty miles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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