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GROOM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does groom mean?
• GROOM (noun)
The noun GROOM has 3 senses:
1. a man participant in his own marriage ceremony
2. someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
3. a man who has recently been married
Familiarity information: GROOM used as a noun is uncommon.
• GROOM (verb)
The verb GROOM has 3 senses:
1. educate for a future role or function
3. care for one's external appearance
Familiarity information: GROOM used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man participant in his own marriage ceremony
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bridegroom; groom
Hypernyms ("groom" is a kind of...):
participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)
Holonyms ("groom" is a member of...):
wedding; wedding party (a party of people at a wedding)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
groom; hostler; ostler; stableboy; stableman
Hypernyms ("groom" is a kind of...):
hand; hired hand; hired man (a hired laborer on a farm or ranch)
Derivation:
groom (give a neat appearance to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A man who has recently been married
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bridegroom; groom
Hypernyms ("groom" is a kind of...):
honeymooner; newlywed (someone recently married)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: groomed
Past participle: groomed
-ing form: grooming
Sense 1
Meaning:
Educate for a future role or function
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
They trained him to be a warrior
Hypernyms (to "groom" is one way to...):
educate (give an education to)
Verb group:
prepare; train (undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession)
develop; educate; prepare; train (create by training and teaching)
check; condition; discipline; train (develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "groom"):
dispose; qualify (make fit or prepared)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
grooming (activity leading to skilled behavior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Give a neat appearance to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
Context example:
dress the horses
Hypernyms (to "groom" is one way to...):
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)
Verb group:
arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set (arrange attractively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They groom the animals
Derivation:
groom (someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Care for one's external appearance
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
groom; neaten
Context example:
He is always well-groomed
Hypernyms (to "groom" is one way to...):
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "groom"):
clean; cleanse (clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing)
shave (remove body hair with a razor)
comb; comb out; disentangle (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)
arrange; coif; coiffe; coiffure; do; dress; set (arrange attractively)
gel; mousse (apply a styling gel to)
pomade (apply pomade to (hair))
clean up (make oneself clean, presentable or neat)
make up (apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier)
manicure (care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.)
barber (perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of)
pedicure (care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.)
do up; doll up; glam up; pretty up (use special care in dressing, making-up, etc.)
slick up; smarten up; spruce; spruce up (dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion)
perfume; scent (apply perfume to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
grooming (the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes)
Context examples
Then, with the aid of the groom and the stable-boy, they had conveyed their injured mistress to her room.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Hunter waited until his fellow-grooms had returned, when he sent a message to the trainer and told him what had occurred.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I call him mine, but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do anything with him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He intends to send his groom into Somersetshire immediately for it, she added, and when it arrives we will ride every day.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It was a harness, such as he had seen the grooms put on the horses at home.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I asked one or two of the grooms and helpers whom I saw around if they could tell me anything about the empty house.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
All went right, and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The questionnaire contains 8 categories of 46 items; dressing and grooming, arising, eating, walking, hygiene, reaching, grip, and activities.
(Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)
In the High Street of Lyndhurst the wayfarers had to pick their way, for the little town was crowded with the guardsmen, grooms, and yeomen prickers who were attached to the King's hunt.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A swarm of ostlers and grooms had rushed out to us, and my uncle, throwing down the reins, gathered Fidelio on his cushion from under the seat.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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