Usually means: Chest area, emotionally intimate space.
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  1. bosom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bosom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bosom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bosom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bosom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bosom, bosom: Wordnik
  7. bosom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bosom: Wiktionary
  9. bosom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bosom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bosom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bosom, bosom: Dictionary.com
  13. bosom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bosom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bosom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bosom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bosom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bosom: Rhymezone
  19. bosom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bosom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bosom: Free Dictionary
  22. bosom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bosom: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. bosom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. bosom: Legal dictionary

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  1. bosom: Encyclopedia

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  2. bosom: Medical dictionary

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  1. bosom: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bosom: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bosom: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy, somewhat dated) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
noun:  The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
noun:  The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
noun:  The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
noun:  A breast, one of a woman's breasts
noun:  Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
noun:  A depression round the eye of a millstone.
adjective:  In a very close relationship.
verb:  To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
verb:  To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
verb:  (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
verb:  (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

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