Meaning of bosom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
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3. Beloved; intimate: a bosom friend.
4. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire
5. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
6. The seat of a person's innermost emotions and feelings:breast, heart, soul.
7. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace
8. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
9. Archaic. To put one's arms around affectionately:clasp, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, press, squeeze.
10. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline
11. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
12. intimate; close. a bosom friend. boesem حَميم близък do peito blízký, důvěrný Busen-... hjerteven επιστήθιοςíntimo südame- صمیمی läheinen intime יְדִיד נֶפֶש अंतरंग मित्र najbolji kebelbarát akrab náinn vinur, trúnaðarvinur del cuore 親密な 친한 artimas sirdsdraugs; sirdsdraudzene rapat boezem- hjerte-serdeczny نږدی، خواږه ، صمیمی do peito intim близкий, закадычный dôverný intimen blizak intim, nära, närmaste ใกล้ชิด çok samimî 親密的 близький باعتماد ، رازدان thân thiết 亲密的
13. A breast, one of a woman's breasts
14. seno, pecho.
15. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
16. The chest of a human: He held the sleepy child to his bosom.
17. A depression round the eye of a millstone.
18. The part of a garment covering the chest or breasts.
19. The security and closeness likened to being held in a warm familial embrace: We welcomed the stranger into the bosom of our family.
20. The chest considered as the source of emotion.
21. (Anatomy) the chest or breast of a person, esp the female breasts

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Examples

“Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.”

“Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval.”

“my poor dear duke[…], in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.”

“His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal,[…]to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.”

“… Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.”

“there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.”

“And he put his hand into his boſome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as ſnowe.”

“She was always in a fearful hurry, and the lower the bosom was cut the more it was to be gathered she was wanted elsewhere.”

“I dont [sic] know that her bosoms were fuller than usual.”

“The prevailing look at Aintree was of a well-upholstered woman wearing an outfit about three sizes too small for her; trouser suits so tight you could not only tell if the lady had a coin in her pocket but see if it was heads or tails, and skimpy tops proclaiming proudly that bosoms are back—and this time it's personal.”

“The baby was crammed against one of her bosoms. He was meant to be sucking milk out of it. The other bosom was hanging down, with a funny long red blob on the end.”

“I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.”

“The appointed place was on the edge of a deep, rocky ravine, down in whose dark bosom brawled and foamed a little mountain torrent.”

“The bosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity.”

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