Pronunciation

• enPR: rōz
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊz/, [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]Category:English 1-syllable words#ROSECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊz/, [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]Category:English 1-syllable words#ROSECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

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  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɾoz/, [ɾoːz]Category:English 1-syllable words#ROSECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE
  • (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ɾoːz/Category:English 1-syllable words#ROSECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE
• Rhymes: -əʊzCategory:Rhymes:English/əʊz#ROSECategory:Rhymes:English/əʊz/1 syllable#ROSE
• Homophones: rows, roes, rhosCategory:English terms with homophones#ROSE

Noun

rose (countable and uncountable, plural roses)Category:English lemmas#ROSECategory:English nouns#ROSECategory:English uncountable nouns#ROSECategory:English countable nouns#ROSECategory:English countable nouns#ROSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     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...

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   • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"

     O my Luve's like a red, red rose
     That's newly sprung in june...

   • 1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily:

     Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
5. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#ROSE) A bouquet of circles.
6. (heraldryCategory:en:Heraldic charges#ROSE) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
7. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ROSE, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#ROSE) A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.

   Web rose:  

   rose-pink:  

8. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
9. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
10. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus PachlioptaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Pachliopta.
11. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#ROSE) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.Category:en:Curves#ROSE
12. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#ROSE, graph theoryCategory:en:Graph theory#ROSE) A graph with only one vertex.
13. (chessCategory:en:Chess#ROSE) A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.
    • 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF‎:

      The rose moves like a knight, but can continue making knight moves so long as there’s a 45-degree rotation between each jump. […] I can’t help but wonder if a full team of roses could even play against each other.

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14. A type of sex toy shaped like a rose.

    Me after ignoring all bad reviews on a rose from Shein and it literally starts electrocuting my clih.Category:English terms with usage examples#ROSE

Verb

rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)Category:English lemmas#ROSECategory:English verbs#ROSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#ROSE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROSE) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.

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2. (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#ROSE, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#ROSE) To perfume, as with roses.
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     the very nape of her white neck
     Was rosed with indignation

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Adjective

rose (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ROSECategory:English adjectives#ROSECategory:English uncomparable adjectives#ROSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

Derived terms

See also

• 🌹

Verb

roseCategory:English non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:English verb forms#ROSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. simple past of rise
2. (now colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#ROSE and nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#ROSE) past participle of riseCategory:English past participles#ROSE
   • 1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] ‎, volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154:

     Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins.

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   • 1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89:

     Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.

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   • 2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict‎, Global Leadership Resources, →ISBN, page 86:

     And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.

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Noun

rose (plural roses)Category:English lemmas#ROSECategory:English nouns#ROSECategory:English countable nouns#ROSECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. Alternative spelling of rosé.

Noun

rose fCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:Czech noun forms#ROSECategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. dative/locative singular of rosa

Verb

roseCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:Czech verb forms#ROSECategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. masculine singular present transgressive of rosit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

Noun

rose c (singular definite rosen, plural indefinite roser)Category:Danish lemmas#ROSECategory:Danish nouns#ROSECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. rose (flower, shrub of the genus Rosa)

Alternative forms

• rosé

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rose/, [ʁoˈse]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

Noun

rose c (singular definite roseen, plural indefinite roseer)Category:Danish lemmas#ROSECategory:Danish nouns#ROSECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. rosé (a pale pink wine)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

Verb

rose (imperative ros, infinitive at rose, present tense roser, past tense roste, perfect tense har rost)Category:Danish lemmas#ROSECategory:Danish verbs#ROSECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. to praise, commend

Derived terms

Derived terms

• crevette rose
• flamant rose
• téléphone rose
• voir la vie en rose

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: woz
• Louisiana Creole: ròz, roz
• Mauritian Creole: roz
• Seychellois Creole: roz
• → Greek: ροζ (roz)
• → Luxembourgish: Rous
• → Persian: رز (roz)
• → Romanian: roz

Related terms

• rosât

Noun

rose plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:Italian noun forms#ROSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. plural of rosa
2. (playing cards, Swiss suits) roses

Swiss suits in Italian · Semi svizzeri (layout · text)
campanelle	scudi	rose	ghiande

Verb

roseCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:Italian verb forms#ROSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. third-person singular past historic of rodere

Participle

rose f plCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#ROSECategory:Italian past participle forms#ROSECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE

1. feminine plural of roso

Alternative forms

• roose, rosse, roos, ros

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːz(ə)/Category:Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation#ROSE

Noun

roseCategory:Middle English lemmas#ROSECategory:Middle English nouns#ROSECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#ROSECategory:Pages with entries#ROSECategory:Pages with 19 entries#ROSE (plural roses or rosen)

1. rose (plant belonging to the genus Rosa)
2. rose (flower of the rose plant)
3. (heraldryCategory:enm:Heraldry#ROSE) The rose as a heraldic emblem.
4. (figurative) A morally upstanding and virtuous individual.
5. reddish-purple; a rosy color