"bosom" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ [Canada, UK, US] Audio: en-us-bosom.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ʊzəm Etymology: From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰuH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bosom}} Middle English bosom, {{m|enm|bosum}} bosum, {{inh|en|ang|bōsm}} Old English bōsm, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*bōsm}} Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*bōsmaz}} Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰewH-|t=to swell, bend, curve}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”), {{cog|stq|Bossem}} Saterland Frisian Bossem, {{m|stq|Bousem|t=bosom}} Bousem (“bosom”), {{cog|fy|boezem|t=bosom}} West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|nl|boezem|t=bosom}} Dutch boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|de|Busen|t=bosom}} German Busen (“bosom”), {{cog|sq|buzë|t=lip}} Albanian buzë (“lip”), {{cog|el|βυζί|t=breast}} Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), {{cog|ro|buză|t=lip}} Romanian buză (“lip”), {{cog|ga|bus|t=lip}} Irish bus (“lip”), {{cog|la|bucca|t=cheek}} Latin bucca (“cheek”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} bosom (not comparable)
  1. In a very close relationship. Tags: not-comparable Translations (in a very close relationship): intime (French), Busen [masculine] (German), Brust [feminine] (German), intimo (Italian), bliski (Polish), бли́зкий (blízkij) (Russian), инти́мный (intímnyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-adj-c7Xbn9Yu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bosome [obsolete]

Noun

IPA: /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ [Canada, UK, US] Audio: en-us-bosom.ogg [US] Forms: bosoms [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊzəm Etymology: From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰuH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bosom}} Middle English bosom, {{m|enm|bosum}} bosum, {{inh|en|ang|bōsm}} Old English bōsm, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*bōsm}} Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*bōsmaz}} Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰewH-|t=to swell, bend, curve}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”), {{cog|stq|Bossem}} Saterland Frisian Bossem, {{m|stq|Bousem|t=bosom}} Bousem (“bosom”), {{cog|fy|boezem|t=bosom}} West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|nl|boezem|t=bosom}} Dutch boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|de|Busen|t=bosom}} German Busen (“bosom”), {{cog|sq|buzë|t=lip}} Albanian buzë (“lip”), {{cog|el|βυζί|t=breast}} Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), {{cog|ro|buză|t=lip}} Romanian buză (“lip”), {{cog|ga|bus|t=lip}} Irish bus (“lip”), {{cog|la|bucca|t=cheek}} Latin bucca (“cheek”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} bosom (plural bosoms)
  1. (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). Tags: dated Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun--PB7XyfL Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. Translations (seat of one's inner thoughts): sydän (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-hMbVGypH Disambiguation of "seat of one's inner thoughts": 1 84 4 3 4 5 0
  3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. Translations (protected inner part): qucaq (Azerbaijani), sisin (Finnish), syli (Finnish), αγκαλιά (agkaliá) [feminine] (Greek), intimità [feminine] (Italian), seno [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-z5tdnAy2 Disambiguation of 'protected inner part': 3 10 60 16 0 9 2
  4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline. Translations (part of a dress etc. covering the chest; neckline): miehusta (english: part of dress) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-3Yhs7XNt Disambiguation of 'part of a dress etc. covering the chest; neckline': 3 2 5 88 0 1 0
  5. A breast, one of a woman's breasts Synonyms (a woman's breasts): breasts Translations (woman's breast(s)): povi (Finnish), rinta (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-8h3oasN6 Disambiguation of "a woman's breasts": 5 2 0 0 88 6 0 Disambiguation of "woman's breast(s)": 15 2 0 0 63 19 0
  6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior. Translations (any thing or place resembling the breast): syli (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-Wp4AIhxD Disambiguation of 'any thing or place resembling the breast': 6 1 0 1 4 89 0
  7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-noun-uJMBnKJ8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bosome [obsolete] Derived forms: Abraham's bosom, bird in the bosom, bosom buddy, bosom friend, cherish a snake in one's bosom, in Abraham's bosom, nourish a viper in one's bosom, take to one's bosom Translations (chest, breast): ثَدْي (ṯady) [masculine] (Arabic), صدر (ṣedr) [Egyptian-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), կուրծք (kurckʿ) (Armenian), ծոց (cocʿ) (english: space between chest and clothes) (Armenian), гърди (gǎrdi) [plural] (Bulgarian), пазва (pazva) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 胸部 (xiōngbù) (Chinese Mandarin), 乳房 (rǔfáng) (Chinese Mandarin), ēlchiquihuitl (Classical Nahuatl), poprsí [neuter] (Czech), boezem [masculine] (Dutch), barmur [masculine] (Faroese), povi (note: of a woman) (Finnish), rinta [general] (Finnish), sein [masculine] (French), seo [masculine] (Galician), Busen [masculine] (German), 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 (barms) [masculine] (Gothic), στήθος (stíthos) [neuter] (Greek), kebel (Hungarian), mell (Hungarian), barmur [masculine] (Icelandic), seslä (Ingrian), povi [rare] (Ingrian), broinne [masculine] (Irish), seno [masculine] (Italian), (mune) (alt: むね) (Japanese), 가슴 (gaseum) (Korean), sinus [masculine] (Latin), града (grada) [feminine] (Macedonian), гради (gradi) [plural] (Macedonian), ateate (Maori), ateatenga (Maori), poho (Maori), uma (Maori), chichihualli (Nahuatl), barm [masculine] (Norwegian), گوگس (göğüs) (Ottoman Turkish), باغر (bağır) (Ottoman Turkish), Bossem [masculine] (Plautdietsch), Brost [feminine] (Plautdietsch), seio [masculine] (Portuguese), грудь (grudʹ) [feminine] (Russian), па́зуха (pázuxa) [feminine] (Russian), broilleach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), uchd [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), недра [Cyrillic, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), прса [Cyrillic, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), nedra [Roman, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), prsa [Roman, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), prsi [feminine, plural] (Slovene), prsa [neuter, plural] (Slovene), nedra [literary, neuter, plural] (Slovene), seno [masculine] (Spanish), pechera [feminine] (Spanish), busto [masculine] (Spanish), byst (Swedish), barm (Swedish), மார்பு (mārpu) (Tamil), రొమ్ము (rommu) (Telugu), koyun (Turkish), blöt (Volapük)
Disambiguation of 'chest, breast': 33 2 0 19 27 20 0

Verb

IPA: /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ [Canada, UK, US] Audio: en-us-bosom.ogg [US] Forms: bosoms [present, singular, third-person], bosoming [participle, present], bosomed [participle, past], bosomed [past]
Rhymes: -ʊzəm Etymology: From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰuH-}}, {{inh|en|enm|bosom}} Middle English bosom, {{m|enm|bosum}} bosum, {{inh|en|ang|bōsm}} Old English bōsm, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*bōsm}} Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*bōsmaz}} Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰewH-|t=to swell, bend, curve}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”), {{cog|stq|Bossem}} Saterland Frisian Bossem, {{m|stq|Bousem|t=bosom}} Bousem (“bosom”), {{cog|fy|boezem|t=bosom}} West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|nl|boezem|t=bosom}} Dutch boezem (“bosom”), {{cog|de|Busen|t=bosom}} German Busen (“bosom”), {{cog|sq|buzë|t=lip}} Albanian buzë (“lip”), {{cog|el|βυζί|t=breast}} Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), {{cog|ro|buză|t=lip}} Romanian buză (“lip”), {{cog|ga|bus|t=lip}} Irish bus (“lip”), {{cog|la|bucca|t=cheek}} Latin bucca (“cheek”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} bosom (third-person singular simple present bosoms, present participle bosoming, simple past and past participle bosomed)
  1. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-verb-~EbtikUA
  2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-verb-08ctAEZA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 5 20 5 15 1 13 4 3 26 2 4
  3. (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-verb-Tc12VDmD
  4. (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-bosom-en-verb-BtueF7AX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bosome [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
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        {
          "ref": "1833, E.K. Avery, B.F. Hallet, Trial of Rev. Mr. Avery, Boston, page 140",
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        {
          "ref": "2003 April 7, Martin Kelner, The Guardian",
          "text": "The prevailing look at Aintree was of a well-upholstered woman wearing an outfit about three sizes too small for her; trouser suits so tight you could not only tell if the lady had a coin in her pocket but see if it was heads or tails, and skimpy tops proclaiming proudly that bosoms are back—and this time it's personal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, A&C Black, page 241",
          "text": "The baby was crammed against one of her bosoms. He was meant to be sucking milk out of it. The other bosom was hanging down, with a funny long red blob on the end.",
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        },
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          "lang": "Finnish",
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        {
          "ref": "1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 26",
          "text": "I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story",
          "text": "The appointed place was on the edge of a deep, rocky ravine, down in whose dark bosom brawled and foamed a little mountain torrent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior."
      ],
      "id": "en-bosom-en-noun-Wp4AIhxD",
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 1 0 1 4 89 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "any thing or place resembling the breast",
          "word": "syli"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "ref": "1884, Edward Henry Knight, Knight's New Mechanical Dictionary, page 123",
          "text": "The bosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A depression round the eye of a millstone."
      ],
      "id": "en-bosom-en-noun-uJMBnKJ8",
      "links": [
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "eye",
          "eye"
        ],
        [
          "millstone",
          "millstone"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊz(ə)m/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊzəm"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bosom.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/En-us-bosom.ogg/En-us-bosom.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/En-us-bosom.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṯady",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ثَدْي"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṣedr",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "صدر"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kurckʿ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "կուրծք"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "hy",
      "english": "space between chest and clothes",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cocʿ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ծոց"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gǎrdi",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "гърди"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pazva",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пазва"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiōngbù",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "胸部"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rǔfáng",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "乳房"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "nci",
      "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ēlchiquihuitl"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "poprsí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boezem"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barmur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "of a woman",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "povi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ],
      "word": "rinta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sein"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Busen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "barms",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "stíthos",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "στήθος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "kebel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "mell"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barmur"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "seslä"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "povi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broinne"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seno"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "alt": "むね",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mune",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "胸"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gaseum",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "가슴"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sinus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "grada",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "града"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gradi",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "гради"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ateate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ateatenga"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "poho"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "uma"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "nah",
      "lang": "Nahuatl",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "chichihualli"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barm"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "göğüs",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "گوگس"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bağır",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "باغر"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bossem"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brost"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grudʹ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "грудь"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pázuxa",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "па́зуха"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broilleach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uchd"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "недра"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "прса"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "nedra"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsi"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "nedra"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seno"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pechera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "busto"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "byst"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "barm"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "mārpu",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "மார்பு"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "rommu",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "రొమ్ము"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "koyun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "33 2 0 19 27 20 0",
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "blöt"
    }
  ],
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}

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      "args": {
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "ine-pro",
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      },
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      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "Bossem"
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Bousem (“bosom”)",
      "name": "m"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
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        "t": "bosom"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "boezem",
        "t": "bosom"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch boezem (“bosom”)",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Busen",
        "t": "bosom"
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      "expansion": "German Busen (“bosom”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "buzë",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian buzë (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "βυζί",
        "t": "breast"
      },
      "expansion": "Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "buză",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Romanian buză (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "bus",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish bus (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "bucca",
        "t": "cheek"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin bucca (“cheek”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).",
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bosom (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "bosom buddies"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908 September 18, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in New York Times, Describing the death of Thomas Etholen Selfridge, first airplane fatality in history",
          "text": "Lieut. Creecy of the navy, who has been detailed to the aerial experiments at the fort, and who was a bosom companion of young Selfridge, was brokenhearted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a very close relationship."
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      "id": "en-bosom-en-adj-c7Xbn9Yu",
      "links": [
        [
          "close",
          "close"
        ],
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "in a very close relationship",
          "word": "intime"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a very close relationship",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Busen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a very close relationship",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Brust"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a very close relationship",
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      "word": "bird in the bosom"
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      "word": "in Abraham's bosom"
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          "ref": "2003 April 7, Martin Kelner, The Guardian",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, A&C Black, page 241",
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          "ref": "1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 26",
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d1/En-us-bosom.ogg/En-us-bosom.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/En-us-bosom.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    {
      "sense": "a woman's breasts",
      "word": "breasts"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "bosome"
    }
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    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṯady",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ثَدْي"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ṣedr",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "صدر"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kurckʿ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "կուրծք"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "english": "space between chest and clothes",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cocʿ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ծոց"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gǎrdi",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "гърди"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pazva",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пазва"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiōngbù",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "胸部"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rǔfáng",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "乳房"
    },
    {
      "code": "nci",
      "lang": "Classical Nahuatl",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ēlchiquihuitl"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "poprsí"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boezem"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barmur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "of a woman",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "povi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ],
      "word": "rinta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Busen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "barms",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "stíthos",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "στήθος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "kebel"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "mell"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barmur"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "seslä"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "povi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seno"
    },
    {
      "alt": "むね",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mune",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "胸"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gaseum",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "가슴"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sinus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "grada",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "града"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gradi",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "гради"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ateate"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "ateatenga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "poho"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "uma"
    },
    {
      "code": "nah",
      "lang": "Nahuatl",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "chichihualli"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barm"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "göğüs",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "گوگس"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bağır",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "باغر"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bossem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brost"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grudʹ",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "грудь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pázuxa",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "па́зуха"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "broilleach"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uchd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "недра"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "прса"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "nedra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "prsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "nedra"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seno"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pechera"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "busto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "byst"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "barm"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "mārpu",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "மார்பு"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "rommu",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "రొమ్ము"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "koyun"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "chest, breast",
      "word": "blöt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seat of one's inner thoughts",
      "word": "sydän"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "word": "qucaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "word": "sisin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "word": "syli"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "agkaliá",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αγκαλιά"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "intimità"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "protected inner part",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seno"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "part of dress",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "part of a dress etc. covering the chest; neckline",
      "word": "miehusta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "woman's breast(s)",
      "word": "povi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "woman's breast(s)",
      "word": "rinta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "any thing or place resembling the breast",
      "word": "syli"
    }
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}

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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
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        "t": "lip"
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      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
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        "t": "lip"
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
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        "t": "cheek"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "text": "bosom buddies"
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          "ref": "1908 September 18, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in New York Times, Describing the death of Thomas Etholen Selfridge, first airplane fatality in history",
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      "tags": [
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        "UK",
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      "rhymes": "-ʊzəm"
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      "tags": [
        "US"
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    {
      "tags": [
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    }
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "word": "intime"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Busen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brust"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "word": "intimo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "word": "bliski"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blízkij",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "word": "бли́зкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "intímnyj",
      "sense": "in a very close relationship",
      "word": "инти́мный"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bosom"
}

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    "English terms derived from Old English",
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    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH-",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verbs",
    "Requests for review of German translations",
    "Rhymes:English/ʊzəm",
    "Rhymes:English/ʊzəm/2 syllables"
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        "3": "*bʰuH-"
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      "name": "root"
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      "args": {
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        "3": "bosom"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bosom",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "bosum"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "stq",
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "boezem",
        "t": "bosom"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "boezem",
        "t": "bosom"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Busen",
        "t": "bosom"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "buzë",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian buzë (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "βυζί",
        "t": "breast"
      },
      "expansion": "Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "buză",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Romanian buză (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "bus",
        "t": "lip"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish bus (“lip”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "bucca",
        "t": "cheek"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).",
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    {
      "form": "bosoms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosoming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bosomed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "form": "bosomed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene 1",
          "text": "Bosom up my counsel,\nYou’ll find it wholesome.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cherish",
          "cherish"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1741, Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad: As it was Found in the Year 1741, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1742, Book IV, p 29, lines 291-292",
          "text": "To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines,\nWhere slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth",
          "text": "Those whom you feared most are now bosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers",
          "text": "Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom."
      ],
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        [
          "embosom",
          "embosom"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869, Allan Hume, “My first Nests of Bonelli’s Eagle”, in The Ibis, Series 2, Volume 5, p. 145",
          "text": "Just above the recess the cliff bosomed out with a full swell for some two or three feet, effectually preventing any one’s looking down into the nest from above […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1905, Alex Macdonald, In Search of El Dorado, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Part II, “The Five-Mile Rush,” p. 92,\nWhat 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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To belly; to billow, swell or bulge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belly",
          "belly"
        ],
        [
          "billow",
          "billow"
        ],
        [
          "swell",
          "swell"
        ],
        [
          "bulge",
          "bulge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441,\nI 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."
        },
        {
          "text": "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,\nThus one by one they mount, and spreading wide,\nThe transverse wings extend on either side,\nAnd, lightly bosomed by the gentle gale,\nShe seems a moving pyramid of ail."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge."
      ],
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          "belly"
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          "billow",
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          "swell",
          "swell"
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        [
          "bulge",
          "bulge"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbʊz(ə)m/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "UK",
        "US"
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ʊzəm"
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/En-us-bosom.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "text": "Audio (US)"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "bosome"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bosom"
}

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