Definitions for bough
baʊbough

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. boughnoun

   any of the larger branches of a tree

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boughnoun

   An arm or large shoot of a tree, bigger than a branch, yet not always distinguished from it.

   Etymology: bog, Saxon;

   He saw a vine-labourer, that, finding a bough broken, took a branch of the same bough, and tied it about the place broken. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   Their lord and patron loud did him proclaim,
   And at his feet their laurel boughs did throw. Fairy Q. b. i.

   From the bough
   She gave him of that fair enticing fruit. Parad. Lost, b. ix.

   As the dove’s flight did guide Æneas, now
   May thine conduct me to the golden bough. John Denham.

   Under some fav’rite myrtle’s shady boughs,
   They speak their passions in repeated vows. Wentworth Dillon.

   See how, on every bough, the birds express,
   In their sweet notes, their happiness. John Dryden, Indian Emp.

   ’Twas all her joy the rip’ning fruits to tend,
   And see the boughs with happy burdens bend. Alexander Pope.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boughnoun

   an arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch

2. Boughnoun

   a gallows

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Bough

   bow, n. a branch of a tree: the gallows. [A.S. bóg, bóh, an arm, the shoulder (Ger. bug, the shoulder, the bow of a ship)—A.S. bugan, to bend.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOUGH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bough is ranked #30767 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bough surname appeared 757 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bough.
   
   84.4% or 639 total occurrences were White.
   6% or 46 total occurrences were Black.
   2.9% or 22 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.7% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.5% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.3% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Tree Branch

How to pronounce bough?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bough in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bough in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bough in a Sentence

1. Dante Alighieri:

   The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

2. D. H. Lawrence:

   I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

3. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 5 scene 1:

   Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

4. Omar Khayym:

   A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow

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