Definition of "rose"

rose¹

/ɹəʊz/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural roses
1. A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. A flower of the rose plant.
  Quotations
  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...
  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, [Act II, scene ii]
  O my Luve's like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in june...
  1794, Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose:"
  Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
  1913, Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily
3. A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. Something resembling a rose flower.
5. (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
6. (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
7. A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
8. The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
9. Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
10. (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
11. (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
verb
third-person singular simple present roses, present participle rosing, simple past and past participle rosed
1. (poetic, transitive) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
  Quotations
  A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
  1599, 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, [Act V, scene ii]
2. (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
  Quotations
  the very nape of her white neck Was rosed with indignation
  1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […]
adjective
not comparable
1. Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

rose²

verb
1. simple past of rise
2. (now colloquial and nonstandard) past participle of rise
  Quotations
  Chidley-Mount, Som. on the other ſide of the Parret, oppoſite to Bridgewater, which is ſuppoſed to have roſe from its ruins.
  1775, The Complete Gazetteer of England and Wales […] ‎, volume 1, G. Robinson, and R. Baldwin, page 154
  Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.
  1805, Cobbett's Political Register, volume 8, page 89
  And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.
  2006 January 30, Timothy Stagich, Conscious Ascension: The Global Rise of Mankind Out of the Depths of Conflict‎, Global Leadership Resources, page 86

rose³

noun
plural roses
1. Alternative spelling of rosé

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