Blossom

/ˈblɒs.əm/ · noun

Meaning

A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers..

Definitions by Sense

1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
2. The state or season of producing such flowers.
3. (figurative) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
4. The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
5. (intransitive) To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
6. (intransitive) To begin to thrive or flourish.

Example Sentences

The blossom has come early this year.

And on the moꝛowe / Moſes went in to the tabernacle: and beholde / the rod of Aaron of the houſſe of Leui was budded ⁊ bare bloſomes and almondes.

Foppiſh and fantaſtick Ornaments are only Indications of Vice, not criminal in themſelves. Extinguiſh Vanity in the Mind, and you naturally retrench the little Superfluities of Garniture and Equipage. The Bloſſoms will fall of themſelves, when the Root that nouriſhes them is deſtroyed.

Winter, spring, and summer, passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.

The orchard is in blossom.

Down by the River Wye, among plum-trees in blossom, Noel had laid her baby in a hammock, and stood reading a letter: […]

This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, / When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, / Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness; / […] long did I love this lady, / Long was my travail, long my trade to win her; / With all the duty of my soul, I served her.

For colour he [Nobs, a horse] was neither black-bay, brown-bay, dapple-bay, black-grey, iron-grey, sad-grey, branded-grey, sandy-grey, dapple-grey, silver-grey, dun, mouse-dun, flea-backed, flea-bitten, rount, blossom, roan, pye-bald, rubican, sorrel, cow-coloured sorrel, bright sorrel, burnt sorrel, starling-colour, tyger-colour, wolf-colour, deer-colour, cream-colour, white, grey or black. Neither was he green, like the horse which the Emperor [Septimus] Severus took from the Parthians, […]

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• blossoms
• blasom
• blossoming
• blossomed

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