Definition of rose, rose in English English dictionary
- English rose
- An Englishwoman of fine and delicate beauty, akin to that of a rose
She is a true English rose.
- English rose
- Any rose thought to be typical of an English country garden
- Marie Rose sauce
- A condiment made from a blend of ketchup and mayonnaise, most often served with seafood, especially prawns
- Mary Rose sauce
- Alternative spelling of Marie Rose sauce
- Rose
- A female given name
- Rose
- A surname
- Rose Sunday
- Mothering Sunday; a day in honor of mothers and/or one's mother church, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Rose Sunday
- Mid-Lent Sunday; the fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday
- Tudor rose
- A heraldic emblem of England, formed from the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York
- ashes of rose
- A pinkish gray color
White and black added to the above combinations result in the quieter tones and tints of these — such as old rose, ashes of rose, salmon, red-brown, terra-cotta, brick red and the series of pinkish to orange greys.
- ashes-of-rose
- Alternative spelling of ashes of rose
- come out smelling like a rose
- Alternative form of smell like a rose
- come up smelling like a rose
- Alternative form of smell like a rose
- compass rose
- A graduated circle, usually marked in degrees, indicating directions and printed or inscribed on an appropriate medium
- dog rose
- The European wild rose, Rosa canina, having fragrant white or pink flowers and stems with sharp spines
- dog rose
- A Rosa canina flower
- guelder rose
- A cultivated plant, Viburnum opulus, having small white flowers
- look through rose-tinted glasses
- Alternative spelling of wear rose-colored glasses
- misty rose
- Of very faint pink colour, like that of a rose veiled in mist
- misty rose
- A very faint pink colour, like that of a rose veiled in mist
misty rose colour:.
- rose
- a purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers
rose pink colour:.
- rose
- To make rose-colored
- rose
- a flower of the rose plant
- rose
- Alternative spelling of rosé
- rose
- the base of a light socket
- rose
- Simple past of rise
- rose
- a shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers
- rose
- a round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose
- rose
- a plant or species in the rose family (Rosaceae)
- rose
- something resembling a rose flower
- rose
- Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy
- rose burner
- A common type of gas burner in which the shape of the flame resembles a rosette
- rose chafer
- A tan-colored beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosus, found in North America
- rose chafer
- A metallic-green beetle, Cetonia aurata, with a distinct V-shaped scutellum, found over central and southern Europe
- rose chafers
- plural form of rose chafer
- rose curve
- any plane curve that consists of loops (petals) emanating from a central point
- rose fish
- a food fish that lives off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, Sebastes marinus
- rose garden
- A highly desirable situation
I beg your pardon, / I never promised you a rose garden. / Along with the sunshine, / There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.
- rose garden
- A garden devoted primarily to roses
- rose gardens
- plural form of rose garden
- rose geranium
- any of several flowering plants, of the genus pelargonium, having pink flowers and fragrant leaves; especially pelargonium graveolens, pelargonium roseum and pelargonium sidoides
- rose geraniums
- plural form of rose geranium
- rose gold
- A gold-copper alloy used in jewelry for its reddish color
- rose golds
- plural form of rose gold
- rose oil
- An essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of roses, used mainly for flavouring and perfumes
- rose oils
- plural form of rose oil
- rose up
- Simple past of rise up
- rose water
- The water-soluble portion of the distillate of rose petals
- rose window
- A generic term applied to a circular window, but especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery
- rose windows
- plural form of rose window
- rose-colored
- Alternative spelling of rose-coloured
- rose-colored glasses
- Glasses that are tinted in a pink or rose shade
- rose-colored glasses
- An optimistic perception of something; a positive opinion; seeing something in a positive way, often thinking of it as better than it actually is
- rose-coloured
- cheerfully optimistic
- rose-coloured
- having a pink colour
- rose-garden
- Alternative spelling of rose garden
- rose-ringed parakeet
- the ring-necked parakeet
- rosé
- A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation
- rosé wines
- plural form of rosé wine
- smell like a rose
- To be regarded as appealing, virtuous, or respectable; to be untainted or unharmed
The champion of corporate governance should smell like a rose. Instead, there's an unpleasant whiff of pork-barrel politics rising from the board.
- smelling like a rose
- Present participle of smell like a rose
- stem the rose
- To have anal sex; to insert one's penis (stem) into another's anus (rose)
you guys wasn't gettin' paid to leave the dogs to babysit the sheep while you stemmed the rose, from Brokeback Mountain.
- wear rose-colored glasses
- To see the positive in things while being oblivious to the negative
- wearing rose-colored glasses
- Present participle of wear rose-colored glasses
- wears rose colored glasses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wear rose-colored glasses
- wears rose-colored glasses
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wear rose-colored glasses
- wind rose
- A diagram in which the speed and direction of the winds at a particular location are represented by lines of varying thickness and length superimposed on a compass rose
- wore rose colored glasses
- Simple past tense and past participle of wear rose-colored glasses
- wore rose-colored glasses
- Simple past tense and past participle of wear rose-colored glasses
- rose
- {n} a very sweet flower
- The bloom is off the rose
- When the bloom is off the rose, it means, figuratively, that whatever you are talking about has lost its first freshness, it's former beauty and allure. Literally, it means, of course, that the blooms of the rose have withered and dropped
- desert rose
- a flower-like aggregate of mineral crystals, occurring in arid areas
- desert rose
- a dense Australian shrub with pinkish-lilac flowers. (Gossypium sturtianum.)
- desert rose
- a succulent plant with pink tubular flowers and toxic milky sap, native to East Africa and Arabia. (Adenium obesum.)
- floribunda rose
- (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Any of several hybrid roses bearing numerous single or double flowers
- look at life through rose-tinted glasses
- (deyim) Hayata pembe gözlükler ardından bakmak
- look at life through rose-tinted spectacles
- (deyim) Hayata pembe gözlükler ardından bakmak
- rose-tinted glasses
- (deyim) If someone looks at something through rose-tinted glasses, they see only the pleasant parts of it
She has always looked at life through rose-tinted glasses.
- rose-tinted spectacles
- If someone looks at something through rose-tinted glasses, they see only the pleasant parts of it
She has always looked at life through rose-tinted glasses.
- Cherokee rose
- A prickly climbing evergreen rose (Rosa laevigata) native to China and naturalized in the southeast United States, having showy white fragrant flowers
- China rose
- A Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis) having mostly red, pink, or white flowers. It is an ancestor of many cultivated hybrid roses
- Christmas rose
- A European perennial evergreen herb (Helleborus niger) cultivated for its white or pinkish flowers that bloom in winter
- Fred Rose
- born Aug. 24, 1897, Evansville, Ind., U.S. died Dec. 1, 1954, Nashville, Tenn. U.S. singer and songwriter, a pioneer of country music. He grew up in St. Louis, and he performed at Chicago nightclubs as a teenager. He wrote and recorded popular music in the 1920s, including "Honest and Truly." As country music emerged, Rose became one of its foremost songwriters. He had his own Nashville radio show and later wrote songs for Gene Autry's films. Many of his songs have become classics, including "Tears on My Pillow" (1941) and "A Mansion on the Hill" (1948), cowritten with Hank Williams, whose career he helped foster. In 1942 he and Roy Acuff cofounded the Acuff-Rose Publishing Co. Rose was one of the first three musicians elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
- Mary Rose
- a British warship which sank in the sea off the south coast of England on its first journey in 1545. It was brought to the surface in 1982, and can now be seen in Portsmouth
- Peter Edward Rose
- born April 14, 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. U.S. baseball player. Rose began playing organized baseball at age eight. He played for the Cincinnati Reds (1963-78, 1984-86), the Philadelphia Phillies (1979-83), and the Montreal Expos (1984). His 4,256 career hits and 3,562 games played both remain all-time records, and his career mark for runs (2,165) is exceeded only by Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron. In 1989, after being investigated for allegedly betting on baseball games, including those of his own Reds, Rose was banned from the sport for life by the commissioner of baseball
- Roman de la Rose
- (French; "Romance of the Rose") One of the most popular French poems of the late medieval period. Modeled on Ovid's Art of Love, it survives in more than 300 manuscripts. Its first 4,058 lines were written 1230 by Guillaume de Lorris; they form a charming dream allegory drawing on traditions of courtly love. About 1280 Jean de Meun wrote the rest of the more than 21,000 lines, incorporating a vast mass of encyclopaedic information and opinions on many contemporary topics, which secured the poem's fame. The Roman was translated by Geoffrey Chaucer and was one of the most important literary influences on his writings
- Rose
- A diminutive of the given name Rosemary
- Rose
- vernacular form of the medieval Rosa, reinforced by the English noun rose
- Rose Bowl
- an American football game held on January 1st every year in Pasadena, California, between the winners of the two main college conferences, the Big Ten and the Pac
- Rose Parade
- a parade held every year in Pasadena, California, on January 1st, that has many large vehicles covered with flowers, marching bands, and horse riders. The parade is shown on television all over the US
- adjective rose 3
- pink in colour
- banksia rose
- Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers
- bog rose
- a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide-gaping corolla; Canada
- compass rose
- The symbol on a map which shows the directions--N S E W
- compass rose
- used to show direction on a map
- compass rose
- n A symbol found on some maps showing the four cardinal directions
- compass rose
- A circle drawn on a map, (usually a navigational chart) which is subdivided in a clockwise direction from 0° to 360° , with 0° indicating true North On older maps and charts, it was a decorated diagram of cardinal directions, divided into 32 points, originally called rosa ventorum, or "rose of the winds"
- damask rose
- A rose (Rosa damascena) native to Asia that has fragrant red or pink flowers and is used as a source of attar
- desert rose
- South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics
- dog rose
- A prickly wild rose (Rosa canina) native to Europe and naturalized in eastern North America, having fragrant pink or white flowers
- fresh as a rose
- blooming, looking beautiful
- memorial rose
- It is often planted in cemeteries
- moss rose
- {i} garden rose with a mossy flower stem and calyx and scented pink flowers
- mountain rose
- European alpine rose with crimson flowers
- musk rose
- A prickly Mediterranean shrub (Rosa moschata) cultivated for its clustered, musk-scented white flowers
- old rose
- A dark pink to grayish or moderate red
- provence rose
- A name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of Rosa centifolia and R
- provence rose
- The cabbage rose (Rosa centifolia)
- rose
- a type of wine
- rose
- (Remote Operations Service Element) (n ) A lightweight RPC protocol used in ISO/OSI message handling, directory, and network management application protocols
- rose
- A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc
- rose
- Remote Operations Service Element The OSI RPC mechanism used in OSI Message Handling, Directory, and Network Management application protocols
- rose
- A rose is a flower, often with a pleasant smell, which grows on a bush with stems that have sharp points called thorns on them. a bunch of yellow roses
- rose
- The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments
- rose
- {s} having a pinkish coloring; having the characteristics of a rose
- rose
- A diamond
- rose
- See Rose window, below
- rose
- A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp
- rose
- of Rise
- rose
- having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"
- rose
- The Rose, which is popular in English heraldry, is generally borne singly and full-faced, with five petals, barbs and seeds
- rose
- a dusty pink color any of many plants of the genus Rosa having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn
- rose
- To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush
- rose
- Beads used for counting prayers originated with the Hindus, and were retained by the Buddhists The Arabs adopted them from the Buddhists of eastern Persia, which was predominately Buddhist at the time of the Arab expansion The Christians got them from the Saracens, part of the esoteric crosspollination going on at the time In Arabic, the word for "rose" (ward) is just a vowel away and related by root to the word for "invocation of sacred Names" (wird) Thus the rose symbolism in the Sufi way (connoting remembrance), and the name of this device in Christianity: "Rosary "
- rose
- a dusty pink color
- rose
- Rose is the past tense of rise
- rose
- See Rose diamond, below
- rose
- French word for pink wine, now commonly used all over the world
- rose apple
- fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit
- rose chafer
- common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e
- rose chafer
- roses
- rose color
- pinkish red, purplish red
- rose colored
- pink, having a pink color
- rose garden
- a garden for growing roses
- rose geranium
- any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant 3- to 5-lobed leaves and pink flowers
- rose gum
- very tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales
- rose mallow
- plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock showy shrub of salt marshes of the eastern United States having large rose-colored flowers
- rose of Jericho
- Either of two desert plants, Anastatica hierochuntica of the mustard family, native to northern Africa and southwest Asia, or Selaginella lepidophylla, a fern ally distributed from Texas and Arizona south to El Salvador. Each plant forms a tight ball when dry and unfolds and grows under moist conditions. Also called resurrection plant
- rose of Sharon
- Shrub or small tree (Hibiscus syriacus, or Althaea syriaca) in the mallow family, native to eastern Asia but widely planted as an ornamental for its showy flowers. It can grow to 10 ft (3 m) and generally assumes a low-branching pyramid shape. The mallowlike flowers range from white and pinkish-lavender to purple, generally with a crimson base; some varieties have double flowers. The name also sometimes refers to the unrelated Aaron's-beard (Hypericum calycinum), a shrubby relative of St.-John's-wort
- rose of Sharon
- shrub or small tree bearing white or red flowers (or sometimes purple), althea; flower mentioned in the Biblical book Song of Solomon
- rose of sharon
- Asiatic shrub or small shrubby tree having showy bell-shaped rose or purple or white flowers and usually 3-lobed leaves; widely cultivated in temperate North America and Europe
- rose quartz
- Mohs Hardness: 7 - Treatment: Dyed to enhance color - Color: Light to medium pink to nearly white
- rose quartz
- a translucent rose-red variety of quartz used for ornaments
- rose to high tones
- raised his voice, expressed his objections loudly, became upset; heated up, escalated (of an argument, etc.)
- rose water
- A fragrant preparation made by steeping or distilling rose petals in water, used in cosmetics, as toilet water, and in cookery
- rose window
- a stained glass window in circular form with symmetrical roselike tracery typical of Gothic cathedrals See rose windows on the web
- rose window
- A rose window is a large round stained glass window in a church. A large circular window, usually glazed with stained glass, having stone tracery radiating from the center, often with intricate petallike patterns. a circular window in a church, especially one with coloured glass in it. In Gothic architecture, a decorated circular window, often glazed with stained glass, that first appeared in mid-12th-century cathedrals. It was used mainly at the western end of the nave and the ends of the transept. The bar tracery of a High Gothic rose window consisted of a series of radiating forms, each tipped by a pointed arch at the outside of the circle. The rose windows of Notre-Dame de Paris are particularly noteworthy. In later Flamboyant-style tracery, the radiating elements consisted of an intricate network of wavy, double-curved bars
- rose window
- Large circular window, usually in a church facade, ornamented with tracery
- rose window
- A large circular window wiLh concentric tracery or radiating mullions which resemble the spokes of a wheel Also called a wheel window
- rose window
- Round window in a frame of heavy tracery radiating out like the spokes of a wheel, and containing stained glasses
- rose-colored glasses
- optimism, tendency to see things in a positive manner
- rose-colored starling
- glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen; chiefly Asian
- rose-coloured
- rose-coloured in AM, use rose-colored If you look at a person or situation through rose-coloured glasses or rose-tinted glasses, you see only their good points and therefore your view of them is unrealistic. In British English, you can also say that someone is looking through rose-coloured spectacles. Its influence can make you view life through rose-coloured glasses
- rose-root
- Eurasian mountain plant with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers
- rose-tinted
- see rose-coloured. rose-coloured
- rosé
- {i} wine of a light pink color
- tea rose
- any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers
- wind rose
- A meteorological diagram depicting the distribution of wind direction and speed at a location over a period of time
- wind rose
- A flower-like diagram indicating the relative frequencies of different wind directions for a given station and period of time
- wind rose
- a diagram, for a given locality or area, showing the frequency and strength of the wind from various directions