Blossoming

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process by which something blossoms.

    "“The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring."

  2. 2
    the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of blossom form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"What glorious summer days were those! how delightful it was to sit under those rose-trees which seemed as if they never intended to stop blossoming!"

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