BROOM
Dictionary entry overview: What does broom mean?
• BROOM (noun)
The noun BROOM has 3 senses:
1. a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
2. any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
3. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Familiarity information: BROOM used as a noun is uncommon.
• BROOM (verb)
The verb BROOM has 2 senses:
1. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
2. finish with a broom
Familiarity information: BROOM used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BROOM (noun)
Meaning:
A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("broom" is a kind of...):
cleaning implement (any of a large class of implements used for cleaning)
Meronyms (parts of "broom"):
broom handle; broomstick (the handle of a broom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broom"):
besom (a broom made of twigs tied together on a long handle)
push broom (a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper)
whisk; whisk broom (a small short-handled broom used to brush clothes)
Meaning:
Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("broom" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "broom"):
dyer's greenweed; dyer's-broom; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen (small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental)
Genista hispanica; Spanish broom; Spanish gorse (erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers)
broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin (prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe)
common broom; Cytisus scoparius; green broom; Scotch broom (deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers)
Cytisus albus; Cytisus multiflorus; white broom; white Spanish broom (low European broom having trifoliate leaves and yellowish-white flowers)
weeping tree broom (small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent two-seeded pods)
Spanish broom; Spartium junceum; weaver's broom (tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California)
Holonyms ("broom" is a member of...):
Papilionoideae; subfamily Papilionoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae)
Meaning:
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Scots heather; heather; Calluna vulgaris; ling; broom
Hypernyms ("broom" is a kind of...):
heath (a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers)
Holonyms ("broom" is a member of...):
Calluna; genus Calluna (one species)
• BROOM (verb)
Meaning:
Sweep with a broom or as if with a broom
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
broom; sweep
Context examples:
Sweep the crumbs off the table / Sweep under the bed
Hypernyms (to "broom" is one way to...):
pass over; wipe (rub with a circular motion)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Finish with a broom
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "broom" is one way to...):
finish (provide with a finish)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
