Associations to the word «Burgeon»

Wiktionary

BURGEON, noun. (obsolete) bud, sprout, shoot
BURGEON, verb. (intransitive) To grow or expand.
BURGEON, verb. (intransitive) To swell to the point of bursting.
BURGEON, verb. (intransitive) (archaic) Of plants, to bloom, bud.

Dictionary definition

BURGEON, verb. Grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin