Definition of bloom

"bloom" in the noun sense

1. blooming, bloom

the organic process of bearing flowers

"you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed"

2. flower, bloom, blossom

reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

3. bloom, bloom of youth, salad days

the best time of youth

4. bloom, blush, flush, rosiness

a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health

5. flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush

the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

6. efflorescence, bloom

a powdery deposit on a surface

"bloom" in the verb sense

1. bloom, blossom, flower

produce or yield flowers

"The cherry tree bloomed"

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Quotations for bloom

Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

Not more the rose, the queen of flowers,
Outblushes all the bloom of bower,
Than she unrivalled grace discloses;
The sweetest rose, where all are roses. [ Moore ]

The bloom or blight of all men's happiness. [ Byron ]

No pleader can pervail
Who prays against the laws of Time or Fate,
No matter how we murmur and bewail.
The robins will not build in winter hail
Nor lilacs bloom in February. Wait. [ Elizabeth Akers ]

Light without life is a candle in a tomb;
Life without love is a garden without bloom. [ Proverb ]

And lo! the fullness of the time has come.
And over all the exile's western home.
From sea to sea the flowers of freedom bloom! [ Whittier ]

The rose will bloom when the storm is passed. [ Robert Browning ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]

Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]

The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]

The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. [ Gay ]

Well - peace to thy heart, though another's it be;
And health to that cheek, though it bloom I not for me. [ Thomas Moore ]

Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds to age. [ Cicero ]

The dewy morn, with breath all incense and with cheek all bloom. [ Byron ]

I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. [ Tennyson ]

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. [ Schelling ]

Even the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. [ Addison ]

That eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beauty. [ Rowe ]

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. [ Hervey ]

Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom. [ Christian D. Larson ]

Infirmity and sickness may excite our pity; but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. [ Rousseau ]

When pleasure, like the midnight flower that scorns the eye of vulgar light, begins to bloom for sons of night and maids who love the moon. [ Moore ]

However old a conjugal union, it still gamers some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow some flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. Fortunately, in England at any rate, Education produces no effect whatsoever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. [ Froude ]

The unknown! It is the field in which are sown our dreams, where we see them germinate, grow, and bloom. Who would live without the benefit of the incertitude granted to our miseries. [ E. Souvestre ]

Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]

Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]

Nature is sanitive, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. [ Emerson ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

bloom in Scrabble®

The word bloom is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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bloom in Words With Friends™

The word bloom is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

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Words within the letters of bloom

3 letter words in bloom (5 words)

4 letter words in bloom (2 words)

5 letter words in bloom (1 word)

bloom + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving bloom

Shorter words in bloom

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Longer words containing bloom

abloom

bloomed outbloomed

bloomed rebloomed

bloomed unbloomed

bloomer bloomers everbloomers

bloomer everbloomer everbloomers

bloomier

bloomiest

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blooming nightblooming

blooming outblooming

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