Need another word that means the same as “groom”? Find 37 synonyms and 30 related words for “groom” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Groom” are: neaten, curry, dress, prepare, train, brush, comb, rub, rub down, clean, tidy, smooth, arrange, do, adjust, put in order, make tidy, spruce up, smarten up, preen, primp, freshen up, prime, make ready, ready, condition, tailor, bridegroom, hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman, stable hand, stable lad, stable boy, stable girl, husband-to-be
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “groom” as a noun can have the following definitions:
bridegroom | A man participant in his own marriage ceremony. |
hostler | Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses. |
husband-to-be | A light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element. |
ostler | Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses. |
stable boy | A farm building for housing horses or other livestock. |
stable girl | A farm building for housing horses or other livestock. |
stable hand | A farm building for housing horses or other livestock. |
stable lad | A farm building for housing horses or other livestock. |
stableboy | Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses. |
stableman | Someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “groom” as a verb can have the following definitions:
adjust | Permit small alterations or movements so as to achieve a desired fit, appearance, or result. A single control adjusts the water flow. |
arrange | Arrange attractively. Accommodation can be arranged if required. |
brush | Arrange one s hair by running a brush through it. Stems of grass brush against her legs. |
clean | Clean and tidy up the house. The boys cleaned the sandwich platters. |
comb | Prepare wool flax or cotton for manufacture with a comb. She combed her hair and put some lipstick on. |
condition | Apply a conditioner to the hair. A product for conditioning leather. |
curry | Prepare or flavour (food) with a sauce of hot-tasting spices. Curry tanned leather. |
do | Get something done. What can I do for you. |
dress | Dress in a certain manner. Dress the victim s wounds. |
freshen up | Become or make oneself fresh again. |
make ready | Assure the success of. |
make tidy | Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like. |
neaten | Care for one’s external appearance. She made an attempt to neaten her hair. |
preen | (of a person) devote effort to making oneself look attractive and then admire one’s appearance. It did not prevent them from preening themselves on their achievement. |
prepare | To prepare verbally either for written or spoken delivery. Schools should prepare children for life. |
prime | Insert a primer into a gun mine or charge preparatory to detonation or firing. Prime a mine. |
primp | Dress or groom with elaborate care. She was primping her stiff hair. |
put in order | Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events. |
ready | Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use event etc. Get the children ready for school. |
rub | Make dry clean or smooth by rubbing. She rubbed her arm where she had a large bruise. |
rub down | Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching. |
smarten up | Raise. |
smooth | Make smooth or smoother as if by rubbing. Values are collected over a long period of time so that fluctuations are smoothed out. |
spruce up | Make neat, smart, or trim. |
tailor | Of a tailor make clothes to fit individual customers. He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London. |
tidy | Bring order to (something); arrange neatly. She paused briefly to tidy her hair. |
train | Teach and supervise someone act as a trainer or coach to as in sports. It s a learning experience I have to train my eyes again and refine my footwork. |
adorned | Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction. |
apparel | Clothe (someone. They were dressed in bright apparel. |
attire | Clothes, especially fine or formal ones. Formal attire. |
bachelor | Lead a bachelor s existence. One of the country s most eligible bachelors. |
bedeck | Decorate. He led us into a room bedecked with tinsel. |
bouquet | The characteristic scent of a wine or perfume. The aperitif has a faint bouquet of almonds. |
bridal | Of or pertaining to a bride. The bridal party came out into the church porch. |
bride | A woman on her wedding day or just before and after the event. The bride and groom left early last night. |
bridegroom | A man on his wedding day or just before and after the event. |
chiffon | A light, transparent fabric typically made of silk or nylon. A chiffon blouse. |
cloak | Cover with or as if with a cloak. She cloaked her embarrassment by rushing into speech. |
decorated | Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction. |
decorative | Serving to make something look more attractive; ornamental. A well appointed house with original decorative features. |
dowry | An amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage. Elizabeth s dowry was to be 45 000 in diamonds. |
dress | Dress or groom with elaborate care. Dress the salads. |
finery | Expensive or ostentatious clothes or decoration. Officers in their blue gold and scarlet finery. |
heterosexual | A heterosexual person someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex. Heterosexual relationships. |
honeymoon | Spend a honeymoon. They flew to the West Indies on honeymoon. |
male | An animal that produces gametes spermatozoa that can fertilize female gametes ova. A male infant. |
marital | Of or relating to the state of marriage. Marital status. |
marriage | The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman. A marriage of ideas. |
marry | Join in marriage. Eric asked me to marry him. |
nuptial | A wedding. Nuptial plumage. |
plume | Deck with a plume. A hat with a jaunty ostrich plume. |
preen | Clean with one’s bill. It did not prevent them from preening themselves on their achievement. |
raiment | Especially fine or decorative clothing. Ladies clothed in raiment bedecked with jewels. |
sandal | A shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot. They were dressed in open toed sandals. |
trim | Adjust the balance of a ship or aircraft by rearranging its cargo or by means of its trim tabs. No one had been there for months everything was out of trim. |
underwear | Clothing worn under other clothes, typically next to the skin. |
wedding | A party of people at a wedding. |
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