Meaning of blossom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
   countable, uncountable
2. A hamlet in New York.
3. The state or season of producing such flowers.
   countable, uncountable
4. A city in Texas.
5. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
6. A female given name.
   rare
7. The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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, […]”

“The resulting craze is probably attributable to a Waialua Elementary guidance teacher, Blossom Galbiso, who introduced the game into O'ahu schoolyards in 1992.”

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