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rose

noun
/ɹəʊz/UK/ɹoʊz/US/ɾoz/

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).

  1. derived from Erasmus
  2. derived from *hrod✻ — “fame”
  3. derived from Roza
  4. derived from Róža
  5. derived from Rózsa
  6. derived from רויז

Definitions

  1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.

  2. 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...
    • 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.

  3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)

  4. ›+ 24 more definitions

    1. Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.

    2. A bouquet of circles.

    3. The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.

    4. A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.

    5. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.

    6. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or…

      The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.

    7. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.

    8. Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.

    9. A graph with only one vertex.

    10. A fairy chess piece that can make knight moves in a circular path.

      • 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.

    11. 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.

    12. To make rose-colored

      To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.

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

    13. To perfume, as with roses.

      • the very nape of her white neck Was rosed with indignation

    14. Having a purplish-red or pink color

      Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

    15. simple past of rise

    16. 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.
      • Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.
      • And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.

    17. Alternative spelling of rosé.

    18. 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.
      • Sentiment hallows the vowels of Delia; /Sweet simplicity breathes from Rose;
      • 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.

    19. A surname from Middle English.

      • While recording, Rose said, a female passerby “encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.”

    20. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    21. A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

    22. A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).

    23. A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.

    24. The winner of that year's contest.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rose. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01rose02pink03dianthus04carnations05carnation06rosy07rose-coloured

A definitional loop anchored at rose. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at rose

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA