[1850–55; a-1 + bloom1]This word is first recorded in the period 1850–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloakroom, headhunting, muggins, overprint, runoffa- is a reduced form of the Old English preposition on, meaning “on,” “in,” “into,” “to,” “toward,” preserved before a noun in a prepositionalphrase, forming a predicate adjective or an adverbial element (afoot; abed; ashore; aside; away), or before an adjective (afar; aloud; alow), as a moribund prefix with a verb (acknowledge), and in archaic and dialectal use before a present participle in -ing (set the bells aringing); and added to a verb stem with the force of a present participle (ablaze; agape; aglow; astride; and originally, awry)
Examples of 'abloom' in a sentence
abloom
Outside, the estate's 14-acres of gardens are abloom with seasonal color.