bouquet
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bouquet¹
- /buːˈkeɪ/
- /boʊˈkeɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.
noun bouquets
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An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
For my birthday I received two bouquets.
Similar: arrangement
- A decoratively arranged bunch of something. Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
- The scent of a particular wine. This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
- The middle note of a perfume. The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
- A compliment or expression of praise. Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he w
- A bouquet of circles.
- The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
- The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
- A group of pheasants. These days were not concluded with the vast bouquet of pheasants, some escaping to furnish sport for next year, others going off with their legs hanging down, and perhaps the majority blown to fragments and falling a tangled mass of bones, blood, and feathers; but there was the exercise, the talent
Bouquet²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French Bouquet.
proper noun Bouquets
- A surname from French.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: posy, nosegay, sweetness, redolence, fragrance, corsage, branch, cherry, perfume, aroma, scent, smell, arm, odor, jamb, box
Translations
Every language
noun bunch of flowers
| Español | ramo, ramita, buqué |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 꽃다발 kkotdabal, 부케 buke, 화속 hwasok |
| 日本語 | 花束 hanataba, ブーケ būke |
| 中文 | 花束 huāshù |
| हिन्दी | गुलदस्ता guldastā, पुष्पगुच्छ puṣpagucch |
| Kiswahili | shada la maua |
| Português | buquê, bouquet, ramo |
| Français | bouquet |
| Deutsch | Blumenstrauß, Bouquet |
| Italiano | mazzo |
| Ελληνικά | ανθοδέσμη anthodésmi |
| Română | buchet |
| Русский | буке́т bukét |
| Tiếng Việt | bó hoa |
| العربية | بَاقَة bāqa, بَاقَة زُهُور bāqat zuhūr |
| עברית | זֵר zer, זר פרחים zer p'rakhím, צְרוֹר tzror |
Talk about this word "bouquet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bouquet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. bouquet. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bouquet "bouquet." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bouquet.Cite this
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title = {bouquet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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