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Definition of rose noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rose

noun
 
 
/rəʊz/
 
/rəʊz/
Idioms
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  1.  
    [countable] a flower with a sweet smell that grows on a bush with thorns (= sharp points) on its stems
    • a bunch of red roses
    • a rose bush/garden
    • a climbing/rambling rose
    see also musk rose
    Homophones rose | rowsrose   rows
     
    /rəʊz/
     
    /rəʊz/
    • rose noun
      • He gave me a single red rose.
    • rose verb (past tense of rise)
      • Prices rose 2 per cent in December.
    • rows noun (plural of row1)
      • Five rows of chairs were set out facing the whiteboard.
    • rows verb (third person of row1)
      • She rows across the river to where the others are waiting for her.
    Topics Plants and treesb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • pink
    • red
    • yellow
    • …
    rose + noun
    • garden
    • bed
    • bush
    • …
    phrases
    • a bed of roses
    • a dozen roses
    • the scent of a rose
    • …
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  2. (also rose pink)
     [uncountable] a pink colour
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  3. [countable] a piece of metal or plastic with small holes in it that is attached to the end of a pipe or watering can so that the water comes out in a fine spray when you are watering plants
  4. (also ceiling rose)
     (specialist) a round object that is fixed to the ceiling of a room for the wires of an electric light to go through
    5. see also English rose
Idioms
be coming up roses
  1. (informal) (of a situation) to be developing in a successful way
    • Everything’s coming up roses!
    Topics Successc2
(not) a bed of roses
  1. (not) an easy or a pleasant situation
    • Their life together hasn't exactly been a bed of roses.
come up/out of something smelling of roses
  1. (informal) to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you
    • Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses.
put roses in somebody’s cheeks
  1. (British English, informal) to make somebody look healthy
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
  1. (saying) what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called
See rose in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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