rose

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
2. (countable, uncountable)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...”

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

   “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
4. (countable, uncountable)Something resembling a rose flower, such as a compass rose.
5. (countable, uncountable)A bouquet of circles.
6. (countable, uncountable)The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
7. (countable, uncountable)A purplish-red or pink color, the color of some rose flowers.
8. (countable, uncountable)A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
9. (countable, uncountable)The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
10. (countable, uncountable)Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
11. (countable, uncountable)Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
12. (countable, uncountable)A graph with only one vertex.
13. (countable, uncountable)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.”

14. (countable, uncountable)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.”

15. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of rosé.
16. (Ireland, informal)A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
17. (Ireland, informal)The winner of that year's contest.

verb

1. (poetic, transitive)To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.

   “A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.”

2. (poetic, transitive)To perfume, as with roses.

   “the very nape of her white neck Was rosed with indignation”

3. (form-of, past)simple past of rise
4. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)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.”

   “Here the genius of agriculture seems to have rose above its dawn.”

   “And, it has often been in the most oppressed of times that human beings have rose up and discovered their greatest potential.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.

name

1. 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.”

2. 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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8. A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
9. A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).