English Dictionary

bosom

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbʊz(ə)m/

名詞

古風

(anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). / The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.

日本語の意味

人の胸部や胸（解剖学的な意味） / 心の奥底、内面に秘めた感情や欲望（比喩的な意味）

She pressed a hand to her bosom when she realized how much she missed home.

彼女は故郷がどれほど恋しいかに気づいたとき、胸に手を当てた。

意味（1）

(anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

意味（2）

The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.

His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal,[…]to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.

意味（3）

The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.

… Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family.

意味（4）

The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.

And he put his hand into his boſome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as ſnowe.

意味（5）

A woman's breast(s).

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

意味（6）

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.

I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.

意味（7）

A depression round the eye of a millstone.

The bosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity.

bosoms （ plural ）