rose

CEFRA1

/ɹəʊz/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flower with a sweet smell and usually many soft petals.

  2. 02

    verb

    Past tense of rise; moved upward or got up.

Examples

  • A cloud of dust rose as the truck drove off.

  • The plane rose sharply before leveling off as it left the coast.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɹoʊz/
  • /ɾoz/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A flower of the rose plant.

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

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

More examples

In context

  • The sun rose from the sea.

  • 1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:" O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in june...

  • Celia: Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry. Rosalind. From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.

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Origin

noun

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 (...