bosom
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bosom
- /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ Canada, UK, US
- /ˈbʌz(ə)m/ Canada, UK, US
Rhymes with -ʊzəm, -ʌzəm
Where it comes from
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 (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).
noun bosoms · bosome
- The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her thr
- The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. my poor dear duke[…], in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.
- The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. … Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.
- The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline. And he put his hand into his boſome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as ſnowe.
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A breast, one of a woman's breasts
I dont [sic] know that her bosoms were fuller than usual.
Similar: breasts
- Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior. I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.
- A depression round the eye of a millstone. The bosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity.
adjective bosome
- In a very close relationship. bosom buddies
verb bosoms · bosoming · bosomed · bosome
- To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. Bosom up my counsel, You’ll find it wholesome.
- To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines, Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;
- To belly; to billow, swell or bulge. Just above the recess the cliff bosomed out with a full swell for some two or three feet, effectually preventing any one’s looking down into the nest from above […]
- To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge. 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441, I looked again, and though I was sensible it must be a delusion brought on by the stroke of his powerful rod, yet I did see the appearance of a glorious fleet of ships coming bou
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: tit, breast, hug, embrace, squeeze, knocker, heart, boob, intimate, close, titty, lap, brisket, fold, chest, bust
Translations
Talk about this word "bosom." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bosom. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bosom. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bosom "bosom." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bosom.Cite this
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title = {bosom},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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