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bloom en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /blʉwm/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /bluːm/ (Received-Pronunciation, Wales)
  • /blum/ (General-American)
  • /blʉm/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /blʉːm/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
    • the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics 1843, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC:
  2. (collective, countable, uncountable) Flowers.
  3. (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
    • O, not for thee the glow, the bloom, ⁠Who changest not in any gale, ⁠Nor branding summer suns avail To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […] 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
    • sight of vernal bloom 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
    • The cherry trees are in bloom.
  4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
    • We can have some more / Nature is a whore / Bruises on the fruit / Tender age in bloom 1992, “In Bloom”, in Kurt Cobain (lyrics), Nevermind, performed by Nirvana:
    • the bloom of youth
    • every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
  5. (countable, uncountable) Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
  6. (countable, uncountable) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
    • The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off. 2010, Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, Low-Carb Smoothies:
  7. (countable, uncountable) Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
    • a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  8. (countable, uncountable) An algal bloom.
    • Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:
  9. (collective, countable, uncountable) A group of jellyfish, especially one caused by a swift increase in the population and especially when they are stranded on shore; the occurrence of such a bloom, and the ecological impact it has.
  10. (countable, uncountable) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
    • the rose-red cobalt bloom
  13. (countable, uncountable) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
  14. (countable, uncountable) A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
  15. (countable, uncountable) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
  16. (countable, uncountable) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
    • Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down. 2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints:
  17. (Philippines, countable, plural-normally, slang, uncountable) A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
  18. (collective, countable, uncountable) A large swarm of ladybugs.
    • Though the bloom appeared to be a massive 80 miles by 80 miles on the radar, Dandrea believes the lady beetles were not flying in a concentrated mass that big. 2019 June 7, Meera D., “"Rain Cloud" On Weather Radar Turns Out To Be A Ladybug Swarm”, in DoGo News:
    • Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed. 2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:
  19. (countable, uncountable) A residue left on a surface as a result of a chemical process.
    • A thin yellowish "bloom" covered the film, but this polished off as before, and the metallic silver took a perfectly "black" polish. 1892, Royal Astronomical Society, Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, volumes 50-51, Blackwell Scientific, page 162:

Forms

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blooms Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

iron bloom · bloom is off the rose · algal bloom · in bloom · bloomless · bloom is off the peach · bloom tea · water bloom · maybloom · Bloomfield · violet bloom · bloomsome · spring bloom · sea bloom · phytoplankton bloom · winterbloom · full bloom · sunbloom · abloom · bloomly · superbloom · embloom · nanobloom · zinc bloom · bloomy · desert bloom · choking bloom · checkerbloom

Synonyms

flower (opening of flowers) · flower (flower of a plant) · flush (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness) · blossom (opening of flowers) · glow (anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness) · blossom (flower of a plant) · prime

Translations (40)

bg разцвет (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor) · es pruina (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · fr floraison (the state of blossoming) · it pruina (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · ru расцве́т (the state of blossoming) · bg цъфтеж (the state of blossoming) · de Reifbelag (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · bg цъфтене (the state of blossoming) · ru цвете́ние (the state of blossoming) · ru цвет (the state of blossoming) · it fioritura (the state of blossoming) · fr fleur (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor) · fr duvet (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · nl waas (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · ru расцве́т (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor) · fr en fleurs (the state of blossoming) · ro brumă (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · fr velours (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · ro înflorire (the state of blossoming) · bg свежест (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor) · fi nukka (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · mi ngarurutanga (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor) · cs rozkvět (the state of blossoming) · fr blanchiment (white area of cocoa butter) · ur کھلنا (the state of blossoming) · mi hanamā (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · fi kukka (mineralogy: a popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals) · fi harmaantuminen (white area of cocoa butter) · nl rijp (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · bg пух (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · fr efflorescence (the state of blossoming) · fr voile (white area of cocoa butter) · fi kukinta (the state of blossoming) · fr fleur (mineralogy: a popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals) · fr pruine (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · se lieđđun (the state of blossoming) · es blanqueamiento (white area of cocoa butter) · es blanqueo (white area of cocoa butter) · ca pruïna (delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves) · ru цвет (state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor)

bloom en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /blʉwm/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /bluːm/ (Received-Pronunciation, Wales)
  • /blum/ (General-American)
  • /blʉm/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /blʉːm/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English bloom (“a blossom”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
    • Charitable affection bloomed them. [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  2. (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
    • Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,— / While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, / And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; [...] 1819 September 19, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 138:
    • The Tree of Life[…]blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold. 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  3. (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
    • A flower which once / In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, / Began to bloom. 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  4. (figuratively, intransitive) To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
    • Shadows bloomed over the yard.
    • Anger bloomed up from his throat.
  5. (figuratively, intransitive) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
    • The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete. 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
    • A better country blooms to view, / Beneath a brighter sky. a. 1788, John Logan, A Tale:
    • Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested. 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
  6. To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
  7. (intransitive, of chocolate) To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
  8. To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
  9. To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.

Forms

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blooming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blooms Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bloomed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bloomed Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

unbloomed · rebloom · outbloom · bloomer · late bloomer · let a thousand flowers bloom · overbloom · night-blooming jasmine · night-blooming cereus

Synonyms

blossom (flourish) · flower (produce blooms) · blossom (produce blooms) · flourish (flourish) · proof · rehydrate · thrive (flourish)

Translations (14)

bg разцъфвам (cause to bloom; make flourish) · fi harmaantua (of chocolate) · fi saada kukkimaan (cause to bloom; make flourish) · es florecer (cause to bloom; make flourish) · de blühen (flourish) · sv blomma (cause to bloom; make flourish) · la vernō (cause to bloom; make flourish) · eo flori (flourish) · fi kukkia (flourish) · se lieđđut (flourish) · es florecer (flourish) · uk цвісти́ (flourish) · bg разцъфвам (flourish) · ru зацвести́ (cause to bloom; make flourish)

bloom en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /blʉwm/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /bluːm/ (Received-Pronunciation, Wales)
  • /blum/ (General-American)
  • /blʉm/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /blʉːm/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle English blome, from Old English blōma (“lump of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Bloom, bluum, blööm (“flower”), Saterland Frisian Bloume (“flower”), West Frisian and Limburgish blom (“flower”), Bavarian Bleame, Bleaml, Bleampl (“flower”), Dutch bloem, blom (“flower”), German Blume (“flower”), Luxembourgish Blumm (“flower”), Vilamovian błum (“flower”), West Flemish blomme (“flower”), Yiddish בלום (blum, “flower”), Danish blomme (“flower”), Faroese blóma (“flower”), Icelandic blóm (“flower”), Norwegian Nynorsk blom, blome (“flower”), Swedish blomma (“flower”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (blōma, “lily”), Vandalic *bluma (“flower”); also Breton bleuñv (“flowers; flowering”), Cornish blejan, blejen, bleujen, bleujenn (“blossom, flower”), Irish bláth (“flower”), Manx blaa (“flower; heyday”), Scottish Gaelic blàth (“bloom, blossom, flower; consequence, effect; heyday”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Latin flōs (“blossom, flower”), Greek φύλλο (fýllo, “leaf; blade; sheet; foil, plate”), Armenian բող (boġ), բոխի (boxi, “a kind of bitter field-plant, probably horse fennel, Hippomarathrum or a kind of fennel or wild parsley”), Tocharian A pält (“leaf; blade”), Tocharian B pilta (“leaf; blade”), Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla, “full-blown flower”), पुल्ल (pulla, “flower”). Related to blow, blade, blead; also related to flower, foil, and belladonna.

Meanings

  1. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
    • These metallic bodies gradually increasing in volume finally conglomerate into a larger mass, the bloom, which is extracted from the furnace with tongs. 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 26:

Forms

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blooms Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

bloomery · blooming

Translations (9)

de Luppe (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · pt lupa (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · bg блума (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · gv bloom (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · bg брус (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · es lupa (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · ru кри́ца (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · fr loupe (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process) · da luppe (the spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process)