# bosom

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbʊz(ə)m/ · frequency rank #27,075

## Definitions
1. The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).
2. The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
3. The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
4. The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
5. A breast, one of a woman's breasts
6. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
7. A depression round the eye of a millstone.

## Etymology
From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).

## Easily confused with
- **boss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-boss)
- **Brom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-brom)
- **bozo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-bozo)
- **broom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-broom)
- **Botox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-botox)
- **bossy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-bossy)
- **boson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-boson)
- **bottom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-bottom)
- **Boston** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-boston)
- **boo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boo-vs-bosom)
- **BOM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bom-vs-bosom)
- **book** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/book-vs-bosom)
- **boom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boom-vs-bosom)
- **boot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boot-vs-bosom)
- **boon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boon-vs-bosom)
- **boob** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boob-vs-bosom)
- **BDSM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bdsm-vs-bosom)
- **boko** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boko-vs-bosom)
- **Bose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bose-vs-bosom)
- **boos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boos-vs-bosom)

## Common misspellings (7)
`bbosom`, `boosm`, `bosmo`, `bosomm`, `bossom`, `bsoom`, `obsom`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bosom