bosom

Alternative forms

 * bosome (obsolete)

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:breasts

Translations

 * Arabic: ثَدْي
 * Egyptian Arabic: صدر
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:, пазва
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: ēlchiquihuitl
 * Czech: poprsí
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: barmur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: seslä, povi
 * Irish: broinne
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: sinus
 * Macedonian: града, гради
 * Maori: ateate, ateatenga, poho, uma
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian: barm
 * Ottoman Turkish: گوگس, باغر, قوین
 * Plautdietsch: Bossem, Brost
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: broilleach, uchd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: недра, прса
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene:, prsa, nedra (literary)
 * Spanish:, pechera,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük:


 * Finnish:


 * Azerbaijani: qucaq
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوین


 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * 1) In a very close relationship.
 * bosom buddies

Translations

 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,


 * German: (bosom buddy)

Verb

 * 1) To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
 * 2) To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
 * 3)  To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
 * 4) * 1905, Alex Macdonald, In Search of El Dorado, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Part II, “The Five-Mile Rush,” p. 92,
 * What Stewart called a “langtailie coat” spread out behind him like streamers in a breeze, a “biled” collar had, in the same gentleman’s terse language, “burst its moorings” and projected in two miniature wings at the back of his ears, and a shirt that had once been white, bosomed out expansively through an open vest.
 * 1)  To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
 * 2) * 1822,, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441,
 * I looked again, and though I was sensible it must be a delusion brought on by the stroke of his powerful rod, yet I did see the appearance of a glorious fleet of ships coming bounding along the surface of the firmament of air, while every mainsail was bosomed out like the side of a Highland mountain.
 * 1) * 1855, The Scald [pseudonym of George Smellie], “Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay” in The Sea: Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and Other Poems, London: Hope & Co., p. 45,
 * Thus one by one they mount, and spreading wide,
 * The transverse wings extend on either side,
 * And, lightly bosomed by the gentle gale,
 * She seems a moving pyramid of ail.
 * 1) * 1855, The Scald [pseudonym of George Smellie], “Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay” in The Sea: Sketches of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, and Other Poems, London: Hope & Co., p. 45,
 * Thus one by one they mount, and spreading wide,
 * The transverse wings extend on either side,
 * And, lightly bosomed by the gentle gale,
 * She seems a moving pyramid of ail.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) The enclosure formed by the breast and arms, embrace