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English

Etymology

From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English b?sm, from Proto-Germanic *b?smaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewH- (“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 ???? (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buz? (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?b?z(?)m/

Noun

bosom (plural bosoms)

1. (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). [from 11^thc.]
2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire. [from 13^thc.]
   • 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

     my poor dear duke […], in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him.
3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace. [from 15^thc.]
   • 1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

     … Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.

   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner

     there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
5. A woman's breast(s). [from 20^thc.]

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

   • 2003, Martin Kelner, The Guardian, 7 April:

     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.

   • 2009, Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 241:

     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.

6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.

Synonyms

• (a woman's breasts): see Thesaurus:breasts

Translations

Adjective

bosom (not comparable)

1. In a very close relationship.

   bosom buddies

Translations

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.
   • c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene 1,^[3]

     Bosom up my counsel,

     You’ll find it wholesome.

2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
   • 1741, Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad: As it was Found in the Year 1741, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1742, Book IV, p 29, lines 291-292,^[4]

     To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines,

     Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;
3. (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
   • 1869, Allan Hume, “My first Nests of Bonelli’s Eagle,” in The Ibis, Series 2, Volume 5, p. 145,^[7]

     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 […]

   • 1905, Alex Macdonald, In Search of El Dorado, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Part II, “The Five-Mile Rush,” p. 92,^[8]

     What 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.

4. (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
   • 1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441,^[9]

     I 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.

   • 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,^[10]

     Thus one by one they mount, and spreading wide,

     The transverse wings extend on either side,

     And, lightly bosomed by the gentle gale,

     She seems a moving pyramid of ail.

Anagrams

• booms, mobos, moobs

English

Etymology 1

Named after Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974) +? -on; coined by English physicist Paul Dirac in 1945 in a lecture titled "Developments in Atomic Theory".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.z?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?.z?n/

Noun

boson (plural bosons)

1. (physics) A particle with totally symmetric composite quantum states, which exempts them from the Pauli exclusion principle, and that hence obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. They have integer spin. Among them are many elementary particles, and some (gauge bosons) are known to carry the fundamental forces. Compare fermion.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction of boatswain.

Noun

boson (plural bosons)

1. (obsolete) A boatswain.

Anagrams

• Bonos, Bosno-, NOBOs, boons, noobs

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English boson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.s?n/
• Hyphenation: bo?son

Noun

boson n (plural bosonen, diminutive bosonnetje n)

1. (physics) boson

Derived terms

• Higgsboson
• ijkboson
• W-boson
• Z-boson

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.z??/

Noun

boson m (plural bosons)

1. (physics) boson

Further reading

• “boson” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Romanization

boson

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Maranao

Noun

boson

1. post office

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Northern Sami

Etymology

From bossut +? -n.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?poson/

Noun

boson

1. fan (electrical device)

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

boson n

1. (physics) boson

Inflection

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boson n (definite singular bosonet, indefinite plural boson, definite plural bosona)

1. (physics) boson

Swedish

Noun

boson c

1. (physics) boson

Declension