rose
Meanings
- A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
- A flower of the rose plant.
- 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 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.
- A graph with only one vertex.
- To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
- To perfume, as with roses.
- Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.
- simple past of rise
- past participle of rise
- Alternative spelling of rosé.
- A female given name from Germanic.
- A surname from Middle English.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.
- A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.
- A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.
- A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).
- A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
- The winner of that year's contest.
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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).