Definition of Rose

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Definition of Rose

Rose

of Rise

imp. of Rise.

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. one worn on a shoe.

A rose window. See Rose window, below.

A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.

The erysipelas.

The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.

The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.

A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.

To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.

To perfume, as with roses.

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Rose Quotations

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Rose Translations

rose in Afrikaans is roos
rose in Danish is rose
rose in Dutch is rose, roze, roos
rose in Finnish is ruusu
rose in German is Rose
rose in Portuguese is levantou-se, rosa
rose in Spanish is rosa

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