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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout.
  2. v. To begin to grow or blossom.
  3. v. To grow or develop rapidly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A bud; a sprout.
  2. n. A boss used for the cover of a book, to prevent injury to the binding. Often written burgen.
  3. To bud; sprout; put forth new buds; shoot forth, as a branch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete bud, sprout, shoot
  2. v. intransitive To grow or expand.
  3. v. intransitive To swell to the point of bursting.
  4. v. intransitive, archaic Of plants, to bloom, bud.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To bud. See bourgeon.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. grow and flourish

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old French borjoner, burjoner ("to bud, to sprout"), from burjon ("a bud"), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Germanic. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English burgeonen, from Old French borjoner, from burjon, a bud, from Vulgar Latin *burriō, burriōn-, from Late Latin burra, a shaggy garment. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • kingparton Talk like that is the rain that should make buried love for one's country burgeon.

    Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Devil on the Cross Dec 14, 2011

  • lweber5@scf.edu Dictionary.com, The market for collectibles has burgeoned in recent years.
    Nov 5, 2010

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