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say it: roots
roots is a noun meaning "the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage". It is pronounced /ˈɹuts/ — roots. It carries one recorded sense.
the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage
“his roots in Texas go back a long way”
“he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”
“his music has African roots”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roots come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.