: abounding with blooms : blooming

Examples of abloom in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As the day began, the abbey buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats. Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 May 2023 The church buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats as the congregation of international dignitaries and nobles arrived. Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2023 As the day began, the abbey buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats as the congregation of international dignitaries, nobles and other notables arrived. Danica Kirka, Fortune, 6 May 2023 Notable invitees As the day began, the abbey buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats. Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2023 Fahrenheit, Lake Akan is seemingly abloom with life in the form of an endless ethereal meadow of ice flowers. Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 14 May 2022 Gallery is abloom with garden paintings and new acquisitions. Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2022 For those who think strawberry fields are found in Beatles songs instead of South Florida’s suburban sprawl, think again, city slickers: Our roadside u-picks are abloom with delicious red berries. Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Jan. 2022 On a midsummer day earlier this year, the pohutukawa trees were abloom in a blaze of red, and kids on vacation zoomed about on scooters and skateboards. Mara Johnson-Groh, Popular Science, 26 May 2020

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'abloom.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Word History

First Known Use

1729, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of abloom was in 1729

Dictionary Entries Near abloom

Cite this Entry

“Abloom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abloom. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

abloom

adjective
: being in bloom

More from Merriam-Webster on abloom

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!