Groom
[gruːm] or [ɡrum]
Definition
(noun.) a man who has recently been married.
(noun.) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony.
(verb.) care for one's external appearance; 'He is always well-groomed'.
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
(n.) One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.
(n.) A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom.
(v. i.) To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.
Checker: Nicole
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Waiter, servant, valet.[2]. Stable-servant, hostler.[3]. Bridegroom.
Edited by Constantine
Definition
n. one who has the charge of horses: a title of several officers of the royal household: a bridegroom.—v.t. to tend as a horse.—n. Grooms′man the attendant on a bridegroom at his marriage.
Checker: Max
Examples
- A groom took the cutter to the stables, and Archer struck through the park to the high-road. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A fine horse, my friend, said the Count, addressing the groom with the most engaging familiarity of manner, You are going to drive out? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am after Ph?be to shoot her, and the groom is gone another way. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is not well, ma'am, says a groom in Mrs. Rouncewell's audience-chamber. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Arternoon, you mean,' replied the groom, casting a surly look at Sam. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- At the sand-hillocks we were met by the under-groom, running to us from the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This groom is the pilot-fish before the nobler shark. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They know we are poor, so it's no use pretending that we have grooms, buy three or four hats a season, and have things as easy and fine as they do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sir Percival himself dismissed the grooms and stablemen, sending them, with all the horses but one, to London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The horses are splendid, and the men, especially the grooms, ride well, but the women are stiff, and bounce, which isn't according to our rules. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They went around, one after the other, their heads down, the grooms leading them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I fancy them guarded by grooms of the chamber with flaming silver forks with which they prong all those who have not the right of the entree. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- After breakfast, his two grooms rode up to the door with three horses: one of them was a delightfully quiet-looking lady's horse. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The well-groomed chestnut horse and two beautiful setters could leave no doubt that the rider was Sir James Chettam. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This sparkling sally is to the effect that although he always knew she was the best-groomed woman in the stud, he had no idea she was a bolter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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