Rose

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɹəʊz/
• US IPA: /ɹoÊŠz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: rows, roes, rhos

From Old English rōse, from Latin rosa, from Oscan, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (Aeolic ϝρόδον), from Old Persian *wṛda- ("flower") (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian gwl, Persian گل, and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ, Aramaic וַרְדָּא
ܘܪܕܐ, Arabic وَرْدَة, Hebrew וֶרֶד), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos ("sweetbriar") (compare Old English word ("thornbush"), Latin rubus ("bramble"), Albanian hurdhe ("ivy")). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardh-, compare Sanskrit vardh-, with relatives in Avestan).

Full definition of rose

Noun

1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower.
5. (heraldiccharge) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
6. A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
7. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
8. The base of a light socket.
9. (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.

Verb

1. (poetic, transitive) To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.
• ShakespeareA maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
2. (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.

Adjective

1. Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

Derived terms

From rise.

Verb

1. rose

   (simple past of rise)

Related terms

• arisen
• arose
• risen
• rising

From French rosé ("pinkish").

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of rosé

Anagrams

• eros, Eros, EROS, ores, orse, roes, sore