Definition

1. Noun:

   • A type of flowering shrub or its flower: A woody perennial plant of the genus Rosa, often with prickly stems and fragrant, showy flowers, typically having five petals.
   • A pinkish-red color: A color resembling that of the typical rose flower.
   • A perforated nozzle: A flat, disk-shaped attachment with small holes, fitted to the end of a hose or watering can to produce a spray of water.
   • A gemstone cut: A style of cutting a diamond or other gem with a flat base and a dome-shaped top covered with triangular facets.

2. Adjective:

   • Of a pinkish-red color: Having the color of a rose.

3. Verb (archaic):

   • To make rosy: To flush or redden (used poetically).

Usage and Examples

• Noun (Flower/Plant):
  • She planted a beautiful rose in her garden.
  • The scent of the rose filled the room.
• Noun (Color):
  • The walls were painted a soft rose.
• Noun (Nozzle):
  • Attach the rose to the hose for a gentle spray.
• Adjective:
  • The sky at dawn was a rose hue.
• Verb (Archaic/Poetic):
  • The dawn rosed the peaks of the distant mountains.

Advanced Usage and Idioms

• A bed of roses: A situation of ease, comfort, or luxury.
  • Being a manager is not a bed of roses; it involves many difficult decisions.
• Under the rose : In secret, privately, or confidentially.
  • The meeting was held under the rose to avoid public scrutiny.
• No rose without a thorn: A saying meaning that even a pleasant thing or situation has its difficulties or drawbacks.
  • The new job pays well, but there's no rose without a thorn—the commute is very long.
• To come up roses: To turn out very well or successfully.
  • After a difficult start, everything finally came up roses for their project.

Variants and Related Words

• Rosy (adjective): Having a pink or reddish color; also used figuratively to mean optimistic or hopeful (e.g., ).
• Roseate (adjective): Rose-colored; overly optimistic.
• Rosebud (noun): The bud of a rose.
• Rosebush (noun): The shrub that bears roses.
• Rose-colored (adjective): Tinged with rose; also used in the idiom "rose-colored glasses" to mean an unduly cheerful or optimistic view.
• Rosewater (noun): Water scented with rose petals.

Synonyms

• Flower, bloom (for the noun meaning a blossom).
• Pink, blush, coral (for the color).
• Spray head, sprinkler (for the nozzle).

Phrasal Verbs

(Note: "Rose" as a verb is archaic and not commonly used to form modern phrasal verbs. The common verb "rise" has the past tense "rose," but this is a different lexical item.)

Related Idioms

• To stop and smell the roses: To take time to enjoy life's pleasures.
  • You work too hard; you need to stop and smell the roses.
• The English rose: A phrase used to describe a beautiful English woman with a fair, delicate complexion.
• A rose by any other name: A reference from Shakespeare's , suggesting that a thing's name does not change its essential nature.

Adjective

1. of something having a dusty purplish pink color
   • the roseate glow of dawn

Noun

1. a dusty pink color
2. pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
3. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses