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bosom

Pronunciation: /ˈbʊz(ə)m/

The English word “bosom” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
  2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
  4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
  5. A breast, one of a woman's breasts
  6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
  7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.

adjective

  1. In a very close relationship.

verb

  1. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
  2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
  3. To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
  4. To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

Etymology

From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză…

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