abloom
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of abloom
Explanation
Something that's abloom is flowering or blooming. When your rose bush is abloom, it's covered in huge yellow flowers. If a plant is abloom, it's covered in flowers. Buds are opening, and blossoms are big and full. You can also use the adjective abloom figuratively, to mean "flourishing" or "healthy," as when your pink-cheeked friend looks abloom with good health from the fresh air. The prefix a- here means "in," and bloom has a Scandinavian root, the Old Norse blóm, "flower or blossom."
Example Sentences
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As guests arrived, the church buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2023
No one wanted this rare thing abloom in the dusk to end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Heron Hall, by design and not surprisingly, is abloom in full, glorious compliance.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2017
Its intersecting arms gently sway and churn in prevailing winds — whatever it takes to court the splendid nearby cherry tree that is currently abloom with sensuous pink blossoms.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2016
The country was bleak and rocky, a skeleton of landscape; but between the stones and down the precipitous hillsides and along the hot gorges, the incredible multitude of spring flowers were abloom.
From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry
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