Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: blossoming
IPA transcription: [bl'ɑsəmɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
    Meaning: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
Usage examples
  • Her life was the normal blossoming of a nature introspective to a high degree, whose best thought could not exist in pretence.
  • I think he thought that country--if there was one--was just blossoming with roses and babies and canaries and tidies, and all that sort of thing.
  • She was filled with joy when one morning she ran out to her flower-garden after breakfast and found the dingle-bells and cowslips were actually blossoming, while even the cockle-shells were showing their white buds.
  • Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit.