broom

broom is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
2. noun. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
3. transitive verb. See Bream.
4. noun. a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
5. noun. common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere

   Synonyms: heather, ling

6. noun. any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
7. verb. finish with a broom
8. verb. sweep with a broom or as if with a broom

   "Sweep the crumbs off the table"

   "Sweep under the bed"

   Synonyms: sweep

Synonyms

heather, ling, sweep

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in broom:

bromo

Common word forms

brooms, broomed, broomer, brooming

Words from these letters

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