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bosom

[ booz-uhm, boo-zuhm ]

noun

  1. the breast of a human being.
  2. the breasts of a woman.
  3. the part of a garment that covers the breast.
  4. the breast, conceived of as the center of feelings or emotions.

    Synonyms: affection, heart

  5. something likened to the human breast:

    the bosom of the earth.

  6. a state of enclosing intimacy; warm closeness:

    the bosom of the family.



adjective

  1. of, relating to, or worn on or over the bosom.
  2. intimate or confidential:

    a bosom friend.

    Synonyms: dear, intimate, close

verb (used with object)

  1. to take to the bosom; embrace; cherish.
  2. to hide from view; conceal.

bosom

/ ˈbʊzəm /

noun

  1. the chest or breast of a person, esp the female breasts
  2. the part of a woman's dress, coat, etc, that covers the chest
  3. a protective centre or part

    the bosom of the family

  4. the breast considered as the seat of emotions
  5. modifier very dear; intimate

    a bosom friend



verb

  1. to embrace
  2. to conceal or carry in the bosom

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bosom1

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bōs ( u ) m; cognate with Dutch boesem, German Busen

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bosom1

Old English bōsm ; related to Old High German buosam

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Example Sentences

Soon I was in the safe bosom of emergency care, slipping in and out of consciousness as a nurse gently dabbed the blood from my face.

That will be the moment of reckoning for the monarchy—and if the institution continues to find sanctuary in the bosom of the right-wing establishment, then it may not survive in its current form.

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“Ist kalt, ist kalt,” she said and rolled the can across her generous, bare bosom as if to show me how chilly and refreshing it would be while simultaneously making sure it wasn’t.

When these topics are breached, you won’t have to pretend you got a text alert to go pick up your prescription at Target, springing away from the bosom of the family like a popped bra strap.

Close by, a fat woman was holding a small brown-and-white dog to her bosom.

Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her.

Although he “returned to the bosom of my family after the nightmare years,” he often thought about his fallen comrades.

Arriving in Boston was like landing upon the bosom of serenity from the derangement of a war zone.

With Mofaz folding himself back into the bosom of the Likud, it is hard to see just what change is getting started.

They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.

You will follow the suite of my daughter to Spain, and you will become the bosom Counsellor of the wife of your Prince?

There were those who saw him lying on the ground, still in death, his bosom drenched in blood.

He was Honour's self, till he brought the serpent to his bosom, in the shape of his perfidious son.

At this part of Lorenzo's narrative, a cry, unutterable in words, burst from the engloomed but steadfast bosom of his auditor.

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