• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbuxombux‧om /ˈbʌksəm/ adjective HBHBEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGa woman who is buxom is attractively large and healthy and has big breasts
Examples from the Corpus
buxom• Rhoda was forty-eight, blonde, buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid.• She was buxom, and the rust-red pullover she wore was not designed to minimize the fact.• In 1959, a body type was born that was a combination of the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.• Two competing ideal female body types developed: the buxom blonde and the elegant brunette.• The house now belongs to a buxom blonde from Lyon, wife of a driving instructor.• By the gate the Patriarch's buxom companion was still at work, weeding a not particularly fertile-looking patch of edging.• From the time of Barbie on, both the buxom Playboy types and the brunette model types got thinner and thinner.• A buxom woman wears a tall hat.
Origin buxom (1500-1600) buxom “willing to obey, friendly” ((11-17 centuries)), from Old English buhsum, from bugan “to bend”
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 12, 2025

microscope
noun ˈmaɪkrəskəʊp
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree