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US
/ˈbʊzəm/
]
[ UK /bˈʊsəm/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊsəm/ ]
NOUN
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the locus of feelings and intuitions
her story would melt your bosom
in your heart you know it is true - either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
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the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
his bosom was bursting with the secret - cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- a person's breast or chest
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a close affectionate and protective acceptance
his willing embrace of new ideas
in the bosom of the family
VERB
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hide in one's bosom
She bosomed his letters -
hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
They embraced
Hug me, please
He hugged her close to him
How To Use bosom In A Sentence
- Immersed in her ample lap, her adoring voice broadcasting stereophonically through her bosoms, I absorbed the sensationalistic stories and lush illustrations of baby Moses in his basket, later parting the very Red Sea. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- A summer palace was half bosomed in trees.
- This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- The lustrous gipsy – face drooped over the clinging arms and bosom, and the wild black hair fell down protectingly over the childish form. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God. The Right Knock A Story
- In the year 2000, all three Laureates presented high resolution structures of ribosomal subunits, Steitz of the large, Ramakrishnan and Yonath of the small ribosomal subunit. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Presentation Speech
- A life-long penciller of rippling muscles and bosomy babes, he casually refers to Hamlet, Irving Berlin and Ira Gershwin as he describes a life's work in what is often seen as a trashy business.
- I took old Howard along, and he perked up and confuted the doctors, so that it was three years before I buried him restored to the bosom of my family. SHIN-BONES
- The descriptive passages when she has tea with friends, or tends her garden, or shops for blouses to fit her ample bosom are a pleasure and add a completeness to the character.
