BOUQUET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bouquet mean? 

• BOUQUET (noun)
  The noun BOUQUET has 2 senses:

1. an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

2. a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

  Familiarity information: BOUQUET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUQUET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bouquet; corsage; nosegay; posy

Hypernyms ("bouquet" is a kind of...):

floral arrangement; flower arrangement (a decorative arrangement of flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pleasingly sweet olfactory property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bouquet; fragrance; fragrancy; redolence; sweetness

Hypernyms ("bouquet" is a kind of...):

aroma; odor; odour; olfactory property; scent; smell (any property detected by the olfactory system)

 Context examples 

At ten I was on horseback (I hired a gallant grey, for the occasion), with the bouquet in my hat, to keep it fresh, trotting down to Norwood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched 'her boy' by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This new moon is a bouquet of beautiful twinkling stars, and it will give you a chance to show your talents to the fullest.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

As I passed his pew on the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At six in the morning, I was in Covent Garden Market, buying a bouquet for Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She dropped her bouquet as we went towards the vestry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That satisfied Amy, and when she got home she found the vases paraded on the parlor chimney piece with a great bouquet in each.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I presented my bouquet, he gnashed his teeth with jealousy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he told us of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride’s manner, of so transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very significant allusion to claim-jumping—which in miners’ parlance means taking possession of that which another person has a prior claim to—the whole situation became absolutely clear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Laurie and his friends gallantly threw themselves into the breach, bought up the bouquets, encamped before the table, and made that corner the liveliest spot in the room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)