/rəʊz/
#2976 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
A beautiful garden flower with soft petals and sharp thorns on its stem, often red or pink.
Word origin
From Latin rosa, the name of the same flower, which passed into Old English.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- rosa
- English cognates
- rosy
Grammar
Gender
Pluralroses
Examples
.
A single rose is a classic gift of love.
.
Roses is the plural form.
.
Watch out: "rose" is also the past form of the verb rise.
Used in
Grammar articles
(1)Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 60.