GROOMS

Proper noun

Grooms

plural of Groom

Anagrams

• Mogors

Noun

grooms

plural of groom

Verb

grooms

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of groom

Anagrams

• Mogors

Source: Wiktionary


GROOM

Groom, n. Etym: [Cf. Scot. grome, groyme, grume, gome, guym, man, lover, OD. grom boy, youth; perh. the r is an insertion as in E. bridegroom, and the word is the same as AS. guma man. See Bridegroom.]

1. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable. Spenser.

2. One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department; as, the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole.

3. A man recently married, or about to be married; a bridegroom. Dryden. Groom porter, formerly an officer in the English royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

Groom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Groomed; p. pr. & vb. n. Grooming.]

Definition: To tend or care for, or to curry or clean, as a, horse.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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