Definition of Bloom

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Definition of Bloom

Bloom

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.

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.

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.

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.

A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

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.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.

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.

A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

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Bloom Quotations

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Benjamin Disraeli

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda Meir

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung

Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong

Bloom Translations

bloom in Afrikaans is blom
bloom in Danish is blomst
bloom in Dutch is bloem
bloom in Finnish is kukka
bloom in French is fleur
bloom in Italian is fiore, fiorire
bloom in Latin is effloresco
bloom in Norwegian is blomst
bloom in Portuguese is flor
bloom in Spanish is flor, florecer
bloom in Swedish is blomster, blomma, blom

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