Bloom Meaning
/bluːm/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
nounFlowers.
Sentence Examples
The tulips are in bloom in the flower bed.
The flowers are already out of bloom.
CEFR Practice Quiz
In spring, the cherry trees ____ with beautiful pink and white flowers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The flowers in the garden began to ____ as soon as the spring arrived.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
In spring, the cherry trees ____ with beautiful pink and white flowers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The flowers in the garden began to ____ as soon as the spring arrived.