The Meaning of bloom

• (v. i.) To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.
• (v. i.) To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.
• (v. t.) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
• (v. t.) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
• (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling.
• (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.
• (n.) A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
• (n.) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom.
• (n.) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.
• (n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.
• (n.) The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
• (n.) A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
• (n.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom.

Synonyms

blooming , flower , blossom , bloom of youth , salad days , blush , flush , rosiness , flower , prime , peak , heyday , blossom , efflorescence , flush , efflorescence , blossom , flower

Homophones

blum , blume

Rhymes

abloom , assume , backroom , ballroom , barroom , bathroom , bedroom , blum , blume , boardroom , boom , bridegroom , broom , broome , brume , classroom , cloakroom , consume , costume , courtroom , croom , crume , darkroom , doom , elbowroom , entomb , exhume , flume , fume , gloom , glume , groom , groome , grume , handloom , headroom , heirloom , hume , kaboom , khartoum , kume , legroom , legume , loom , lunchroom , mailroom , maktoum , mcbroom , neume , perfume , playroom , plume , presume , reassume , reaume , restroom , resume , rheaume , rheum , room , schoolroom , showroom , spoom , spume , stockroom , storeroom , sunroom , tomb , toolroom , vroom , washroom , whom , womb , workroom , zoom