Usually means: Flowering, flourishing state of plants.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bloom, bloom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bloom, bloom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bloom, bloom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bloom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bloom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bloom, bloom: Wordnik
  7. bloom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bloom, bloom: Wiktionary
  9. bloom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bloom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bloom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bloom, bloom: Dictionary.com
  13. bloom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bloom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Bloom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bloom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bloom: Rhymezone
  19. bloom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bloom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bloom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bloom: Free Dictionary
  23. bloom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bloom: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bloom: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. bloom: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  3. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  6. BLOOM: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. bloom: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bloom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bloom: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. bloom: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bloom: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Bloom: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms
  5. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)
  6. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  7. BLOOM: Chocolate Glossary
  8. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
noun:  (collective) Flowers.
noun:  (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
noun:  (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
noun:  Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
noun:  The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
noun:  Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An algal bloom.
noun:  The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
noun:  A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
noun:  (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
noun:  (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
noun:  A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
noun:  (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
noun:  (video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
verb:  (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
verb:  (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
verb:  (intransitive, cooking, of chocolate) To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
verb:  (cooking) To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
verb:  (cooking) To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
noun:  The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
noun:  A surname.

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