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[groom, groom]

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noun

a bridegroom.

a man or boy in charge of horses or the stable.

any of several officers of the English royal household.

Archaic. a manservant.

verb (used with object)

to tend carefully as to person and dress; make neat or tidy.

to clean, brush, and otherwise tend (a horse, dog, etc.).

to prepare for a position, election, etc.: The mayor is being groomed for the presidency.

(of an animal) to tend (itself or another) by removing dirt, parasites, or specks of other matter from the fur, skin, feathers, etc.: often performed as a social act.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English grom boy, groom; apparently akin to grow

Related forms

groom·er, noun

groom·ish, adjective

groom·ish·ly, adverb

non·groom·ing, adjective

re·groom, verb (used with object)

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un·groomed, adjective

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Synonyms
7. educate, train, coach, drill, tutor.

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Groom returned home, a witness heard her screaming that the baby had died.

It also proposed a plan to groom young faculty members while they are still completing their degrees.

His succinct explanation: the government invited the groom but failed to prepare the bride.

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Groom returned home, a witness heard her screaming that the baby had died.

It also proposed a plan to groom young faculty members while they are still completing their degrees.

His succinct explanation: the government invited the groom but failed to prepare the bride.

Stick with the bride and groom before and after the ceremony.

Douse tops with water occasionally, feed regularly, groom by removing old leafstalks.

Rhesus macaque uses a mirror to groom the area around a head implant, which has been blocked for discretion.

Academics pick bright undergraduate students and groom them as potential graduate students.

Yet the president has conspicuously failed to groom a successor.

As they groom themselves, the tears-and the pheromone-get spread around their bodies and nests.

The bride and groom stand facing each other in the middle of the wedding party.

But doubts about his sincerity are fuelled by his failure to groom anyone for the post.

They also use the tongues to groom themselves and each other as they hang upside down from the treetops.

Like the mother chimpanzees, the female gorillas continued to groom the infants after death, even as they became unrecognizable.

There is also concern that chains of relatives may be brought in by one bride or groom.

The mother will clean her pouch and groom the infant often during this phase.

Moreover, animals often seem to groom each other for far longer than is strictly necessary to keep their fur pristine.

He had trouble feeding himself, and he couldn't groom his four female consorts.

The bride and groom kept changing their attire during the ceremony.

The idea would be to groom him to succeed his father, whose health has not been robust.

They have a rough tongue that helps them clean every last morsel from an animal bone-and groom themselves.

The young girls may consent, but true predators know how to groom.

And beach preservation projects, such as using bulldozers and large rakes to groom the sand can be deadly to grunion nests.

The scientists speculate that the difference may be related to the fact that chimps groom each other but dolphins do not.

The groom is taking her away from her parents, and accepting her to be a new member of his family.

Baden, a friend of the groom who was ordained by the.

They are there to teach you the fundamentals and groom you as a student.

Family and friends of the groom practice their moves for the sangeet, a big, professionally staged show.

How is the first sentiment, the intellectual desire to groom promising you with wisdom, worse than cleaning toilets.

The wedding date had crept within six months and counting, and the groom had been spared from much of the dirty work.

It turns out that rats that groom their pups more also do better at rodent tests of executive function than those who groom less.

But in the end, it was the groom who was in the hot seat, holding a page of.

The groom runs after her as she drives away on a motorcycle.

Secretariat was clumsy as a colt, but his groom knew how to talk to him.

Have the groom saddle the ponies and tell the valet to chill the champagne.

Often they give rein to paternal inclinations by casually plucking infants from their mothers' arms to groom them.

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World English Dictionary

groom (ɡruːm, ɡrʊm)

—n
1.	a person employed to clean and look after horses
2.	See bridegroom
3.	any of various officers of a royal or noble household
4.	archaic a male servant or attendant
5.	archaic, poetic a young man

—vb
6.	to make or keep (clothes, appearance, etc) clean and tidy
7.	to rub down, clean, and smarten (a horse, dog, etc)
8.	to train or prepare for a particular task, occupation, etc: to groom someone for the Presidency
9.	to win the confidence of (a victim) in order to a commit sexual assault on him or her

[C13 grom manservant; perhaps related to Old English grōwan to grow]

'groomer

—n

'grooming

—n

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Word Origin & History

groom

early 13c., grome "male child, boy, youth." No known cognates in other Germanic languages. Perhaps from O.E. *groma, related to growan "grow;" or from O.Fr. grommet "servant" (cf. M.E. gromet "ship's boy," early 13c.). The fact is, it appeared 13c. and nobody knows from whence. Meaning "male servant

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who attends to horses" is from 1660s. The verb is first attested 1809; the transferred sense of "to tidy (oneself) up" is from 1843; figurative sense of "to prepare a candidate" is from 1887, originally in U.S. politics.

groom

husband-to-be at a wedding, 1604, short for bridegroom (q.v.), from O.E. guma "man."

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"You remind me of a child-friend who once wrote to tell me about her sister being married. "Now I will tell you all about Bessie's wedding." Then came a long account of bridesmaids, and breakfast, and everything else, except the name of the bride-groom! That of course didn't matter: the great thing was to get married somehow."

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