rose
A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
Adjective
- Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.
Origin
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-,...
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Noun Entry 2
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- A flower of the rose plant.
- Iu. 'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy: Thou art thy ſelfe... What's in a name? That which we call a Roſe, By any other word would ſmell as ſweete... - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of...
- 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:" O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in june...
- Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. - 1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily:
- A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
- Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
- A bouquet of circles.
- The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
- A nontraditional tincture in Canadian heraldry, corresponding to pink.
- A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
- A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
- The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
- Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
- Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
Forms
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
Origin
From French rosé (“pinkish”).
Forms
Verb poetic, transitive
- To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
- A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. - 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
- To perfume, as with roses.
- the very nape of her white neck Was rosed with indignation - 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […],...
Forms
Verb form of, past
- simple past of rise
- past participle of rise
- Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins. - 1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] , volume 1, G. Robinson, and R....
- Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn. - 1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89:
- And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential. - 2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of...
Origin
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.