rose

1. 1.

   of something having a dusty purplish pink color

   “the roseate glow of dawn”

   Synonymsroseaterosaceous

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of rose

plural

roses·

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.

Questions about rose

What does rose mean?

rose means "any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rose?

rose has 1 syllable: rose. In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊz/.

What is another word for rose?

Close synonyms include rosebush, blush wine, pink wine, rose wine, rosiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rose a common word?

rose is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with rose?

2 words rhyme with rose. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.