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abloom | bloom |

As an adverb abloom

is (postpositive) in or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding .

As an adjective abloom

is blooming; covered in flowers .

As a noun bloom is

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abloom

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Blooming; covered in flowers.
  • (figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
  • * Gregory Hartswick, [Untitled], in , volume 27, number 3, January 1900, reprinted in, 1900, ''St. Nicholas volume 27, page 274 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QWUwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274&dq=abloom]:
    • For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom , most lovely to see!
  • * 1902 , , Under the Trees , page62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sNY8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=abloom]:
    • Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
  • * 1998 , , chapter 15:
    • He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
  • Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
  • * 1987 , Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road , page 70:
    • The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
  • * 1997 , , Jade , chapter 1:
    • When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom , her eyes alight with anticipation.

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    bloom

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) blome, from (etyl) ). More at .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  • * Prescott
    • the rich blooms of the tropics
  • Flowers, collectively.
  • (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
    • The cherry trees are in bloom .
  • * Milton
    • sight of vernal bloom
  • A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
    • the bloom of youth
  • * Hawthorne
    • Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom , a more delicate and briefer beauty.
  • The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
  • Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
  • * Thackeray
    • a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it
  • The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  • A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
    • (Knight)
  • (mineralogy) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals.
    • the rose-red cobalt bloom
  • A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
    • Synonyms
    * (flower of a plant ): blossom, flower * (opening of flowers ): blossom, flower * (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness ): flush, glow
    Derived terms
    * bloom is off the rose * bloomy * in bloom

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  • * Hooker
    • Charitable affection bloomed them.
  • To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
    • (Milton)
  • * Keats
    • While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
  • Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
  • * Milton
    • A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom .
  • (figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
  • * Logan
    • A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky.
    Synonyms
    * (produce blooms) blossom, flower * (flourish) blossom, flourish, thrive
    Derived terms
    * bloomer * late bloomer

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 26:
    • These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom , which is extracted from the furnace with tongs.
    Related terms
    * bloomery * blooming ----