Rose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz/
Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion.
* Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese.
* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.
Senses: examples: text: Celia: Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.
Rosalind. From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports.
ref: Act I, Scene II
text: Sentiment hallows the vowels of Delia; /Sweet simplicity breathes from Rose;
ref: ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19
text: 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.
ref: 1957, Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, Avon Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 248:
text: 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.
ref: 1980, P. D. James, Innocent Blood, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: A female given name from Germanic.
examples: text: While recording, Rose said, a female passerby “encouraged her to speak with Nicholas, so she...rang his front doorbell.”
ref: 2024 December 6, “Battery Charge For Racist Nick Fuentes”, in The Smoking Gun:
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.
glosses: A community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).
Derived terms: La Rose
Rose Bay
Rose Mary Stretch
Wheal Rose
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Rosie
word: Rohesia
word: Rosa
word: Rosalia
word: Rosalía
word: Rosalie
word: Rosalind
word: Rosaline
word: Rosalyn
word: Rosamond
word: Rosamund
word: Rosanna
word: Roselyn
word: Rosemarie
word: Rosemary
word: Rosina
word: Rosita
word: Roslyn