Usually means: Flowering plant with thorny stems.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word rose:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. rose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Rose, rose: Merriam-Webster
  3. rose, rose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rose, rose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rose, rose, rose: Wordnik
  8. rose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rose, rose: Wiktionary
  10. rose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rose, rose: Dictionary.com
  14. rose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. R.O.S.E, R.O.S.E. (Jessie J album), R.O.S.E. (album), ROSE (compiler framework), ROSE, Rose (B.A.P EP), Rose (Doctor Who), Rose (Doctor Who episode), Rose (EP), Rose (French singer), Rose (Keeping Up Appearances), Rose (Marvel Comics), Rose (Street Fighter), Rose (The Vampire Diaries), Rose (Two and a Half Men), Rose (cocktail), Rose (color), Rose (comics), Rose (disambiguation), Rose (given name), Rose (heraldic tincture), Rose (heraldry), Rose (mathematics), Rose (name), Rose (novel), Rose (ship), Rose (surname), Rose (symbolism), Rose (topology), Rose, The Rose (TV series), The Rose (TV soundtrack), The Rose (Taiwanese Drama), The Rose (Yeats), The Rose (band), The Rose (film), The Rose (song), The Rose (soundtrack), The Rose (theatre), The Rose, The rose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rose: Rhymezone
  20. Rose (f), Rose, rose, rose', rose (f), rose (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Rose: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. ROSE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. rose: FreeDictionary.org
  26. rose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. Rose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. rose (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Rose: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. rose: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROSE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Rose (color), rose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Rose: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rose: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rose: Easton Bible
  2. Rose: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rose: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Rose: Visual of Special Plane Curves
  3. Rose: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rose, rose: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rose: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
noun:  A flower of the rose plant.
noun:  A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae)
noun:  Something resembling a rose flower.
noun:  (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
noun:  (heraldry) The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
noun:  A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
noun:  The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended.
noun:  Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
noun:  (mathematics) Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
noun:  (mathematics, graph theory) A graph with only one vertex.
verb:  (poetic, transitive) To make rose-colored; to redden or flush.
verb:  (poetic, transitive) To perfume, as with roses.
adjective:  Having a purplish-red or pink color; rosy.
noun:  A female given name from Germanic.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Rock County, Nebraska.
noun:  A town and hamlet therein, in Wayne County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A town in Waushara County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships, including in Illinois, Michigan (2), Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Rose Township.
noun:  A community of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  A hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7754).
noun:  (Ireland, informal) A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
noun:  (Ireland, informal) The winner of that year's contest.
noun:  Alternative spelling of rosé [A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.]

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