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Rosemary

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɹəʊzməɹi//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɹəʊzˌmɛːɹi//
  • United States//ˈɹoʊzˌmɛəɹi//
  • United States//ˈɹoʊzməɹi//

A female given name from Latin.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Latin.

    "And you - you darling!" - addressing the astonished Rosemary - "will you love your grandmamma? Kiss me, my child." - - - "Oh, you tell fibs!" cried the child. "My name is Rose Marie Romarin - is it not, Grandpa?"

    Rosemary. A sweet dark name, though finally a shrill trite woman.

Etymology

A combination of Rose + Mary, referring to the flower as a symbol of Virgin Mary, first recorded in the eighteenth century. It is found in continental Europe as Rosemarie and Rosa Maria. After mid-nineteenth century when flower names became common it may also refer to the herb rosemary, Latin ros marinus "dew of the sea".

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).