rose
UK /ɹəʊz/ · US /ɹoʊz/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Also a form of rise
Forms roses rosing rosed
- noun A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- noun A flower of the rose plant.
- noun A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- noun Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- noun (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
- noun (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- noun (heraldry) A nontraditional tincture in Canadian heraldry, corresponding to pink.
- noun (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- verb (poetic, transitive) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
- verb (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
- adjective Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.
- proper noun A female given name from Germanic.
- proper noun A surname from Middle English.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.
- proper noun A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.
- proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.
- proper noun A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
- proper noun A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.
- proper noun A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- noun (Ireland, informal) A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
Synonyms
rosebush blush wine pink wine rose wine rosiness roseate rosaceous
Etymology
From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.
cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology
The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /gul/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), 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 वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From French rosé (“pinkish”).
Borrowed from French rosé (“pinkish”). Doublet of roseate.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
- noun A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. Sha.
- verb To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty." Shak.
- verb To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] Tennyson.
Etymology [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. Copperas, Rhododendron.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rose”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details