Bloom
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause to blossom; to make flourish. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. Of a person, business, etc, to flourish.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. Flowers, collectively. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor/vigour; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. (Knight.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals. A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled. The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
Example sentence: Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Blossom
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.The state or season of producing such flowers.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.To begin to thrive or flourish.
Example sentence: The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.