BROOM
What does "BROOM" mean?
A long-handled brush for sweeping floors; also a yellow-flowered shrub.
Meanings
- A brush with a long handle, used for sweeping. She grabbed the broom and swept the crumbs off the porch.
- A shrub of the pea family with long thin stems and bright yellow flowers. The hillside blazed gold with flowering broom in May.
- To sweep or clear away with a broom. He broomed the leaves into a heap by the gate. informal
Did you know?
- The household broom is named after a plant: the original brooms were bundles of twigs from the yellow-flowered shrub called broom, so the tool quietly inherited the bush's name.
Word origin
From Old English 'brom', the name of the yellow-flowered shrub; brooms for sweeping were originally bundles of this plant's twigs, so the tool took the plant's name.
Remember it
BROOM has a long handle of two O's joined together - sweep them across the floor.
A little poem
The broom's twin O wheels-
round the kitchen, gathering
the day into dust.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why was the new broom so confident? It was sweeping the competition.
What it teaches
A clean floor begins by admitting where the dust collects.
Quick facts
What does BROOM mean?
A long-handled brush for sweeping floors; also a yellow-flowered shrub.
Is BROOM a valid word?
Yes — BROOM is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BROOM?
BROOM has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BROOM come from?
From Old English 'brom', the name of the yellow-flowered shrub; brooms for sweeping were originally bundles of this plant's twigs, so the tool took the plant's name.
What can BROOM teach us?
A clean floor begins by admitting where the dust collects.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.