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1. A person's breast or chest
    
2. Cloth that covers the chest or breasts
    
3. A close affectionate and protective acceptance
   "in the bosom of the family"
   - embrace
    
4. The locus of feelings and intuitions
   "her story would melt your bosom"
   - heart
    
5. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
   - breast
    
6. [archaic] The chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
   "his bosom was bursting with the secret"

1. Hide in one's bosom
   "She bosomed his letters"
    
2. To apply pressure on (someone) tightly with your arms, usually with fondness
   - embrace, hug, squeeze

Derived forms: bosoming, bosoms, bosomed

See also: bosomy

Type of: acceptance, acceptation, adoption, breast, chest, clasp, cloth covering, conceal, concealment, espousal, hide, hunch, intuition, mamma, mammary gland, privacy, privateness, secrecy, suspicion

Part of: adult female body, garment, woman's body

Encyclopedia: Bosom