bouquet
/buːˈkeɪ/
bouquet noun: an arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
Noun
bouquet (plural bouquets)
- An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
- For my birthday I received two bouquets.
- Synonyms:
- arrangement
- A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
- Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
- Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs, page 10
- The scent of a particular wine.
- This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
- The middle note of a perfume.
- The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
- A compliment or expression of praise.
- Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he...1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10
- A bouquet of circles.
- The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
- The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
- A group of pheasants.
- These days were not concluded with the vast bouquet of pheasants, some escaping to furnish sport for next year, others going off with their legs hanging down, and perhaps the majority blown to fragments and falling a tangled mass of bones, blood, and feathers; but there was the exercise, the talent...1874, Thomas Pearce, The "Idstone" Papers, page 236
- Whether it was everyday chores around the farm, taking in abandoned animals, or, most recently, tending to a bouquet of pheasants and wild birds, she looked after all living things with a nurturing zeal.2024 December 9, Southern Utah Mortuary, “Rita Brower Obituary”, in Legacy.com, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026
Proper noun capitalized: Bouquet
Bouquet (plural Bouquets)
- A surname from French.
bouquet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bouquet in Hindi
- bunch of flowers
- गुलदस्ता guldastā, पुष्पगुच्छ puṣpagucch
bouquet in Tamil
- bunch of flowers
- பூச்செண்டு pūcceṇṭu
bouquet in Marathi
- bunch of flowers
- पुष्पगुच्छ puṣpaguccha
bouquet in Urdu
- bunch of flowers
- گُلْدَسْتَہ guldasta, گُل دَسْتَہ gul dasta
More languagesFewer languages
- bouquet in Bengali
- কুসুমস্তবক kuśumostobok
- bouquet in Telugu
- తురాయి turāyi
- bouquet in Malayalam
- പുച്ചെണ്ട്
- bouquet in Kannada
- ಪೂಗೊಂಚಲ್, ಪೂಗೊಂಚಲು, ಹೂಗೊಂಚಲು, ಪುಷ್ಪಗುಚ್ಛ
- bouquet in Gujarati
- ગુલદસ્ત guldast
- bouquet in Odia
- ପୁଷ୍ପଗୁଚ୍ଛ
- bouquet in Sanskrit
- गुच्छ guccha
- bouquet in Nepali
- गुलदस्ता guladastā
- bouquet in Pashto
- ګلدسته gwəldastá
- bouquet in Tagalog
- kalangi
- bouquet in Arabic
- بَاقَة bāqa, بَاقَة زُهُور bāqat zuhūr, شَذًى šaḏan, شَذًا šaḏan
- bouquet in Malay
- jambak
- bouquet in Indonesian
- buket
- bouquet in Thai
- ช่อ chɔ̂ɔ, พเยีย pá-yiia
- bouquet in Vietnamese
- bó hoa
- bouquet in Myanmar
- ပန်းစည်း pan:cany:
Examples of bouquet in a sentence
- It is a beautiful bouquet! You needn't've bothered, thank you.
- He sent a bouquet of twelve red roses and a card: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, So are you." How corny is that?
- After she'd finished, she picked a bouquet of wildflowers and vased them in an old mason jar.
Synonyms of bouquet
Forms of bouquet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bouquets |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bouquets |
Origin of bouquet
Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.
Borrowed from French Bouquet.
Words formed from bouquet
Words that rhyme with bouquet
Questions about bouquet
- What does bouquet mean?
- Bouquet means an arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay.
- What is bouquet in Hindi?
- Bouquet in Hindi is गुलदस्ता (guldastā), पुष्पगुच्छ (puṣpagucch). See Bouquet meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bouquet?
- Bouquet can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bouquet?
- Bouquet is pronounced /buːˈkeɪ/.
- What is the plural of bouquet?
- The plural of bouquet is bouquets.
Words near bouquet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bouquet (page history and authors); Bouquet (page history and authors); తురాయి (Telugu) (page history and authors); bouquet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bouquet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ગુલદસ્ત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); bouquet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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