bosom

IPA: bˈʊzʌm

noun

  • (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
  • The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
  • The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
  • The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
  • A breast, one of a woman's breasts
  • Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
  • A depression round the eye of a millstone.

verb

  • To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
  • To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
  • (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
  • (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

adjective

  • In a very close relationship.
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Examples of "bosom" in Sentences

  • Then the thing that I bear in my bosom is not a heart;
  • The bosom is back, apparently, thanks to Mad Men's buxom star.
  • And she touched the little dark violets pinned on her thin bosom and went back to the letter.
  • In North America and some countries in Europe, exposing the bosom is shockingly natural compared to Korea.
  • In youth the bosom is beautifully high, arched and rounded, firm as stone to the touch, with the nipples erect and pointing outwards.
  • I don't know's he's what you call a bosom friend, and, as for his sleepin 'nights -- well, I never heard he couldn't do that, after he went to bed.
  • No man knows what the wife of his bosom is - no man knows what a ministering angel she is - until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
  • Then at intervals in a remote part of the enchanted grove, a delightfull thrill came through the bosom from the roll of the fife and the "spirit stirring Drum".
  • I have been bathing in the clear stream, at the end of my garden; the same stream in which I laved my careless bosom at thirteen; an idea which gave me inconceivable delight; and the more, as my bosom is as gay and tranquil at this moment as in those dear hours of chearfulness and innocence.

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