bloom – English noun declension

English noun forms of bloom

Noun: bloom
Singularbloom
Pluralblooms

Sample Sentences

  • the rich blooms and enamelled vegetation of the tropics [1843, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
  • The cherry trees are in bloom.
  • sight of vernal bloom [1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
  • ⁠Who changest not in any gale,
  • ⁠Nor branding summer suns avail
  • To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
  • the bloom of youth
  • every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. [1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:]
  • We can have some more / Nature is a whore / Bruises on the fruit / Tender age in bloom [1992, “In Bloom”, in Kurt Cobain (lyrics), Nevermind, performed by Nirvana:]
  • The bloom on blueberries is the dusty powder that protects them from the Sun; it does not rinse off. [2010, Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, Low-Carb Smoothies:]
  • a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
  • Where upwellings or other sources of nutrients allow Ehux to abound, it can proliferate, as blooms, to the point that the ocean turns milky. [2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:]
  • the rose-red cobalt bloom
  • Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down. [2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints:]
  • Thousands of the little red and black insects took flight at the same time, and the bloom stretched for 10 miles before they landed. [2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:]
  • Though the bloom appeared to be a massive 80 miles by 80 miles on the radar, Dandrea believes the lady beetles were not flying in a concentrated mass that big. [2019 June 7, Meera D., “"Rain Cloud" On Weather Radar Turns Out To Be A Ladybug Swarm”, in DoGo News:]

Etymology

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more. See: Middle English Nouns 'blome'.

Verbs referencing "bloom"

English Nouns Florence, English Nouns bloomer, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns blom, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns blome, Danish Nouns blomme.