bloom Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the organic process of bearing flowers
    blooming.
    • you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed
  2. noun reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
    blossom; flower.
  3. noun the best time of youth
    bloom of youth; salad days.
  4. noun a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
    rosiness; blush; flush.
  5. noun the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
    prime; flower; blossom; efflorescence; peak; flush; heyday.
  6. noun a powdery deposit on a surface
    efflorescence.
  7. verb produce or yield flowers
    blossom; flower.
    • The cherry tree bloomed

WordNet

Bloom noun
Etymology
OE. blome, fr. Icel. blm, blmi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. blma, OS. blmo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. blwan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.
Definitions
  1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
    The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.
  2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton.
  3. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
    Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.
  4. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
    A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. Thackeray.
  5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
  6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Knight.
  7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.
Bloom intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bloomed present participle & verbal noun Blooming
Definitions
  1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
    A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. Milton.
  2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
    A better country blooms to view, Beneath a brighter sky. Logan.
Bloom transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. R.
    Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.
  2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. R. Milton.
    While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day. Keats.
Bloom noun
Etymology
AS. blma a mass or lump, isenes blma a lump or wedge of iron.
Definitions
  1. (Metal.) (a) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Webster 1913