burgeon
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- (RP) IPA: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/, SAMPA: /"b3:.dZ@n/
- (US) IPA: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)dʒən
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English burjon, burioun "shoot, bud" from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon "a bud"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *burjo ("sprout, offshoot, descendant"), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *beranan (“to carry, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to bear”). Akin to Old High German burjan (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”). More at bear.
[edit] Noun
burgeon (plural burgeons)
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old French borjoner, burjoner (“to bud, to sprout”), from burjon (“a bud”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Germanic.
[edit] Verb
burgeon (third-person singular simple present burgeons, present participle burgeoning, simple past and past participle burgeoned)
- (intransitive) To grow or expand.
- Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.
- (intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
- (intransitive, archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.
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