abloom
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adverb
abloom (not comparable)
- (postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding. [Mid 19th century.][1]
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. [Mid 19th century.][1]
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, New York: Signet, 1960, Chapter Four, p. 106,[1]
- […] on summer nights when the tulips were abloom and the bees buzzing […]
- 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, New York: Signet, 1960, Chapter Four, p. 106,[1]
- (figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
- 1900 January, Gregory Hartswick, “[Untitled]”, in St. Nicholas (magazine)[2], 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[3], 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.