blossom

Meaning

Noun

1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
2. The state or season of producing such flowers.
3. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
4. The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.

Verb

1. To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
2. To begin to thrive or flourish.

Synonyms

flower

🌸

bloom

bud

flourish

open

unfold

efflorescence

sprout

prime

expand

blossom forth

thrive

effloresce

blossom out

burst

blow

flush

heyday

open up

peak

prosper

break into bloom

be in blossom

develop

devolve

educe

burgeon

bunch

evolve

build

explode

florescence

bucket

🪣

born

🐣

flowers

floweret

germination

grow

hatch

be in bloom

lower

lushness

maturate

boom

💥

medicinal herb

outbreak

Cyperus rotundus

petal

posy

blood

🩸

produce

progress

put forth flowers

prosperity

ripen

shoot forth

be amused

string

🪢

arise

advance

become popular

break forth

put on steam

adolesce

burst open

burst out

cheer up

come on

come out

conceived

Hyphenated as

blos‧som

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblɒs.əm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blosme

Inherited from Old English: blostm

Cognate with Western Frisian: blossem

Cognate with Dutch: bloesem

Cognate with German: Blust

Cognate with Albanian: bleron

Cognate with Latin: flōs

In summary

From Middle English blosme, from Old English blostm, blostma, from Proto-Germanic *blōstmô (compare West Frisian blossem, Dutch bloesem; related to *blōstaz [compare German Blust]), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-s- (“bloom, flower”), from *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, to thrive”). Cognate with Albanian bleron (“to blossom, to thrive”), Latin flōs (“flower”), Flōra (“goddess of plants”). See more at blow (etymology 4).