[
UK
/ɡɹˈuːm/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹum/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹum/ ]
VERB
-
care for one's external appearance
He is always well-groomed -
give a neat appearance to
dress the horses
groom the dogs -
educate for a future role or function
The prince was prepared to become King one day
He is grooming his son to become his successor
They trained him to be a warrior
NOUN
- someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
- a man participant in his own marriage ceremony
- a man who has recently been married
How To Use groom In A Sentence
- But in a world where grooming students for a career and making the arts responsive to business are key government priorities, a little artistic vision goes a long way.
- The bride and bridegroom signed the register.
- Most nurses are groomed and institutionalized to believe that unions are bad and unprofessional (anytime a nurse hears the term unprofessional, it is usually from management in an attempt to control behavior). Nursing Voices Forum Meet other nurses, share your nursing knowledge and experiences
- Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
- Another man I later found out was the principal groomsman.
- They will need to be against an Abbeyside team being groomed for glory on the back of outstanding Under-21 and minor success.
- By the late 1980s, she was grooming him as her successor.
- Thus before World War II bridegrooms were 27 year old on the average and brides 23.
- Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
- He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
