BLOOM OF YOUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bloom of youth mean? 

• BLOOM OF YOUTH (noun)
  The noun BLOOM OF YOUTH has 1 sense:

1. the best time of youth

  Familiarity information: BLOOM OF YOUTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOM OF YOUTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The best time of youth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

bloom; bloom of youth; salad days

Hypernyms ("bloom of youth" is a kind of...):

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Holonyms ("bloom of youth" is a part of...):

youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Jennings, who had watched them with pleasure while they were talking, and who expected to see the effect of Miss Dashwood's communication, in such an instantaneous gaiety on Colonel Brandon's side, as might have become a man in the bloom of youth, of hope and happiness, saw him, with amazement, remain the whole evening more serious and thoughtful than usual.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)