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rose - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

rose (countable and uncountable, plural roses)

• 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…¹
  • ✤ O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
    That’s newly sprung in june…²
  • ✤ Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.³
• A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
• Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
• (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
• (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
• (heraldry) A nontraditional tincture in Canadian heraldry, corresponding to pink.
• (countable, uncountable) A purplish - red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
  • ✤ Web rose:
  • ✤ rose-pink:
• 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.
• (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
• (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
• (chess) 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.⁴
• 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.

Verb

rose (third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed)

• (poetic, transitive) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
  • ✤ A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.⁵
• (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
  • ✤ the very nape of her white neck
    Was rosed with indignation⁶

Adjective

rose (not comparable)

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

Verb

rose

• simple past of rise
• (now colloquial and nonstandard) 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.⁷
  • ✤ Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.⁸
  • ✤ And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.⁹

Noun

rose (plural roses)

• Alternative spelling of rosé.

Etymology 1

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rōz
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəʊz/, [ɹ̠ʷəʊz̥]
    • Audio (UK): 🔊
    • Audio (UK): 🔊
  • (US) IPA: /ɹoʊz/, [ɻʷö̞ʊz̥]
    • Audio (US): 🔊
    • Audio (Canada): 🔊
  • (Scotland) IPA: /ɾoz/, [ɾoːz]
  • (Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA: /ɾoːz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophones: rows, roes, rhos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 3

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 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]: ↩

2. 1794, Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose:” ↩

3. 1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily: ↩

4. 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

5. 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]: ↩

6. 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC: ↩

7. 1775, *The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] * ‎${}^{[2]}$, volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154: ↩

8. 1805, Cobbett’s Political Register, volume 8, page 89: ↩

9. 2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict ‎${}^{[3]}$, Global Leadership Resources, →ISBN, page 86: ↩

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