Rose
proper nounnouncommon in dialogue
- United States//ɹoʊz//
A female given name from Germanic.
proper noun
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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.
Rose Ducton. Rosie Ducton. Philippa Rose Palfrey. A row of books with Rose Ducton on the spine. - - - Rose. It didn't even suit her. It was a name in a catalogue: Peace, Scarlet Wonder, Albertine. She had thought that she had got used to the knowledge that nothing about her was real, not even her name.
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A surname from Middle English.
While recording, Rose said, a female passerby “encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.”
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.
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A number of places in the United States: A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
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A number of places in the United States: A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.
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A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).
Etymology
* As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. * Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese. * As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.
noun
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informalA regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
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informalThe winner of that year's contest.
Forms
- plural
- Roses
Rose · A female given name from Germanic.
rosemary · A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis),…Rosemary · A female given name from Latin.rosen · Made of or consisting of roses.