ROSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rose mean? 

• ROSE (noun)
  The noun ROSE has 3 senses:

1. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

2. pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

3. a dusty pink color

  Familiarity information: ROSE used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROSE (adjective)
  The adjective ROSE has 1 sense:

1. of something having a dusty purplish pink color

  Familiarity information: ROSE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

rose; rosebush

Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "rose"):

hip; rose hip; rosehip (the fruit of a rose plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rose"):

mountain rose; Rosa pendulina (European alpine rose with crimson flowers)

ground rose; Rosa spithamaea (low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers)

banksia rose; Rosa banksia (Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers)

dog rose; Rosa canina (prickly wild rose with delicate pink or white scentless flowers; native to Europe)

Bengal rose; China rose; Rosa chinensis (shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses)

damask rose; Rosa damascena; summer damask rose (large hardy very fragrant pink rose; cultivated in Asia Minor as source of attar of roses; parent of many hybrids)

briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier (Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips)

Cherokee rose; Rosa laevigata (Chinese climbing rose with fragrant white blossoms)

baby rose; Japanese rose; multiflora; multiflora rose; Rosa multiflora (vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock)

musk rose; Rosa moschata (rose native to Mediterranean region having curved or climbing branches and loose clusters of musky-scented flowers)

Rosa odorata; tea rose (any of several hybrid bush roses derived from a tea-scented Chinese rose with pink or yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("rose" is a member of...):

genus Rosa; Rosa (large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

blush wine; pink wine; rose; rose wine

Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A dusty pink color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

rose; rosiness

Hypernyms ("rose" is a kind of...):

pink (a light shade of red)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rose"):

old rose (a greyish-pink color)

Derivation:

rosy (of blush color)

• ROSE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having a dusty purplish pink color

Synonyms:

rosaceous; rose; roseate

Context example:

the roseate glow of dawn

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

 Context examples 

The shears rose in the air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The sun rose brightly, and all morning the man tottered and fell toward the ship on the shining sea.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was gone.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I waited here all the night till the sun rose, but I saw nothing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I rose and, standing behind Holmes, studied it over his shoulder.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each day the sun rose earlier and set later.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

'Will you give me a rose?' said he.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For a short three feet she was compelled to crouch, then the walls widened and rose higher in a little round chamber nearly six feet in diameter.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

From the slope below us rose the voices of the Indians as they laughed and sang.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rose, and I rose too; we grasped each other by the hand again, before going out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)