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English
Etymology
a- (“in”) + bloom (“flower”)
Pronunciation
Adverb
abloom (not comparable)
- (postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
Translations
(postpositive) in or into bloom; in a blooming state
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Adjective
abloom (comparative more abloom, superlative most abloom)
- Blooming; covered in flowers.
1934 April 17, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, Tuesday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 112:[Krazy Kat:] How can you tell spring is here, Offissa Pupp? / [Officer Pupp:] By the flower abloom in yon pot.
- (figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
1900 January, Gregory Hartswick, “”, in St. Nicholas (magazine), volume 27, number 3, page 274:For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom, most lovely to see!
1902, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Under the Trees, page 62:Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
1998, Tom Wolfe, chapter 15, in A Man in Full:He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
- Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
1987, Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road, page 70:The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
1997, Ruth Langan, chapter 1, in Jade:When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom, her eyes alight with anticipation.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abloom”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.
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