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burgeon

UK/ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən//ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/

burgeon noun: a bud, sprout, or shoot.

Noun

burgeon (plural burgeons)

  1. (obsolete) A bud, sprout, or shoot.

Verb

burgeon (third-person singular simple present burgeons, present participle burgeoning, simple past and past participle burgeoned)

  1. (intransitive) To grow or expand.
    • Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.
    Synonyms:
    blossom, expand, grow, sprout
  2. (intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
  3. (archaic, intransitive) Of plants, to bloom, bud.
    Synonyms:
    blossom, bud, green, sprout

burgeon meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

burgeon in Hindi

bud, sprout, shoot
कली kalī
to grow or expand
तेजी से बढ़ना या फेलना tejī se baṛhnā yā phelnā

burgeon in Urdu

غنچہ, کلی, شگوفہ

burgeon in Bengali

দ্রুত বিকশিত হওয়া, বেড়ে ওঠা

burgeon in Malayalam

thrive, flourish, prosper
വളർന്നുതുടങ്ങുക, മൊട്ടിടുക, തഴയ്ക്കുക, സമൃദ്ധമാകുക, തഴുക്കുക, അഭിവൃദ്ധിപ്പെടുക

Synonyms of burgeon

All synonyms of burgeon

Forms of burgeon

Noun
pluralburgeons
alternative form (obsolete)bourgeon
Verb
third-person singular presentburgeons
present participleburgeoning
past participleburgeoned
pastburgeoned

Origin of burgeon

From Middle English burjon, burjoun (“shoot, bud”), from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon (“a bud”)), from Old Frankish *burjō (“sprout, offshoot, descendant”), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *burjaną (“to raise up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Compare Old High German burjan, burien, burren (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”), Albanian buron (“sprout, spring, gush out”). More at bear. Alternate etymology derives Old French burjon (“bud”) from Vulgar Latin *burrionem, accusative of *burrio, from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff”) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).

From Middle English burjounen, from Old French borjoner, bourjoner, burjuner.

Words formed from burgeon

Words that rhyme with burgeon

Questions about burgeon

What does burgeon mean?
Burgeon means a bud, sprout, or shoot.
What is burgeon in Hindi?
Burgeon in Hindi is कली (kalī), तेजी से बढ़ना या फेलना (tejī se baṛhnā yā phelnā). See Burgeon meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is burgeon?
Burgeon can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce burgeon?
Burgeon is pronounced /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/ (UK).
What is the plural of burgeon?
The plural of burgeon is burgeons.

Words near burgeon in the dictionary

  1. Burgener
  2. Burgeners
  3. Burgenland
  4. Burgeo
  5. burgeois
  6. burgeon
  7. burgeoned
  8. burgeonest
  9. burgeoneth
  10. burgeoning
  11. burgeoningly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burgeon (page history and authors); burgeon (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); burgeon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); burgeon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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