bosom

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• In a very close relationship.

Verb

• To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
• To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
• To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
• To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

Origin

• From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem, West Frisian boezem, Dutch boezem, German Busen. Related also to Albanian buzë, Greek βυζί, Romanian buză, Irish bus, and Latin bucca.