Definition of "groom"

groom¹

/ɡɹuːm/

noun
plural grooms
1. A man who is about to marry.

groom²

/ɡɹuːm/

noun
plural grooms
1. A person who looks after horses.
  Quotations
  Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
  2013 January, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, page 62
2. One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
3. (archaic) A male servant, or more generally, a common man.
  Quotations
  The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,Would make a miracle of thus much coin …
  c. 1589–1590, Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Ievv of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, Act I
4. A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
verb
third-person singular simple present grooms, present participle grooming, simple past and past participle groomed
1. To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
2. (transitive) To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.
3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) for an event
  Quotations
  It appears that Broderick's seconds, although cool, brave men, were entirely without experience in arranging a duel, and did not know that a man should be groomed for one as carefully as a horse is groomed for a race.
  1912, The Contest for California in 1861: How Colonel E.D. Baker Saved the Pacific States to the Union, page 51
4. (transitive) To prepare (someone) for election or appointment.
  Quotations
  It is of special interest to note the subjects considered as important to those who are being groomed for top administrative posts
  1953, The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the Academic Year page 146
  Our mission is to unfreeze those clones, send them back to high school, and secretly groom them to one day rule the world. Failure to do so could mean world leaders just keep getting worse.
  2002, Clone High episode 1 - "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand"
  India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.
  2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8835, page 12
  Daryl "But he's gonna be safe? I'm afraid those nuns raised him a little -- a little soft."Losang "He'll be well looked after. Nurtured and groomed... to be the leader he's destined to be."
  2023 in "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon" episode 5 "Deux Amours" regarding Laurent
5. (transitive) To attempt to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of luring them into a sexual relationship.
6. (transitive, software engineering) In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.
7. (transitive) To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow.

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