Rose

A female given name from Germanic.

Proper noun

  1. A female given name from Germanic.
    • Celia: Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry. Rosalind. From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. - Act I, Scene II
    • Sentiment hallows the vowels of Delia; /Sweet simplicity breathes from Rose; - ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19
    • An aunt had arrived and her name was Rose and you could hear her voice clarion clear above the others, and you could imagine her warm and huge as a hothouse rose, exactly like her name, filling any room she sat in. -...
  2. A surname from Middle English.
    • While recording, Rose said, a female passerby “encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.” - 2024 December 6, “Battery Charge For Racist Nick Fuentes”, in The Smoking Gun, archived from the...
  3. A number of places in the United States:

    1. An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.

    2. A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.

    3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.

    4. A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.

    5. A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.

  4. A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  5. A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).

Origin

* As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. * Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese. * As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.

Related

Rosie Rohesia Rosa Rosalia Rosalía Rosalie Rosalind Rosaline Rosalyn Rosamond Rosamund Rosanna Roselyn Rosemarie Rosemary Rosina Rosita Roslyn

Derived

La Rose Maryrose Rosanne Roseanna Roseanne Rose Bay Rose Mary Stretch Roseville Wheal Rose

Noun

  1. A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
  2. The winner of that year's contest.

Forms

Roses