Synonyms for bosom
ˈbʊz əm, ˈbu zəmbo·som

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1. bosomnoun

   the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept

   "his bosom was bursting with the secret"

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

2. bosomnoun

   a person's breast or chest

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

3. bosomnoun

   cloth that covers the chest or breasts

   Synonyms:
   boob, heart, tit, titty, knocker, breast, embrace

4. embrace, bosomnoun

   a close affectionate and protective acceptance

   "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family"

   Synonyms:
   heart, embrace, boob, knocker, embracement, tit, embracing, titty, breast

5. heart, bosomnoun

   the locus of feelings and intuitions

   "in your heart you know it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom"

   Synonyms:
   affection, embrace, affectionateness, substance, tit, philia, meat, centre, center, tenderness, core, titty, marrow, sum, nerve, ticker, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, boob, spirit, gist, warmness, inwardness, pith, heart, pump, essence, mettle, warmheartedness, knocker, heart and soul, fondness, breast, spunk, eye, middle

6. breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, tittyverb

   either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

   Synonyms:
   titmouse, embrace, chest, disparager, boob, dummy, mammilla, nipple, pap, breast, white meat, booby, knocker, pinhead, doorknocker, dumbbell, mamilla, tit, heart, titty, detractor, dope, depreciator, teat, rapper

7. bosomverb

   hide in one's bosom

   "She bosomed his letters"

   Synonyms:
   squeeze, hug, embrace

8. embrace, hug, bosom, squeezeverb

   squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

   "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"

   Synonyms:
   hug, twitch, espouse, rack, pressure, encompass, thrust, press, gouge, sweep up, embrace, adopt, force, shove, twinge, compress, tweet, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, pinch, wring, hale, mash, coerce, comprehend, cover, wedge, squelch, constrict, crush

Matched Categories

1. • Adoption
   • Breast
   • Cloth Covering
   • Hide
   • Intuition
   • Privacy

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1. bosomnoun

   Synonyms:
   breast

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1. List of paraphrases for "bosom":

   chest, breast

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How to use bosom in a sentence?

1. V. S. Pritchett:

   She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic.

2. Helen Mirren:

   Helen Mirren's Magical Bosom.

3. William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5:

   Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.

4. David Thomas:

   The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.

5. Stevie Smith:

   This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.