bouquet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A bunch of cut flowers.

   For my birthday I received two bouquets.

2. 2
   noun

   A decoratively arranged bunch of something.

   Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.

3. 3
   noun

   The scent of a particular wine.

   This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.

4. 4
   noun

   The middle note of a perfume.

   The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.

5. 5
   noun

   A compliment or expression of praise.

   Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […]. This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.

6. 6
   noun

   an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present

7. 7
   noun

   a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

8. 8
   noun

   A bouquet of circles.

Etymology

Borrowed from French Bouquet.