rosemary

Questions about rosemary

What does rosemary mean?

rosemary means "widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rosemary?

rosemary has 3 syllables: rose-mar-y. The stress falls on "rose". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊzˌmɛɹi/.

What is another word for rosemary?

Close synonyms include Rosmarinus officinalis. 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 rosemary a common word?

rosemary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 rosemary?

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