1. A flower of the rose plant, usually hand-sized and red, pink, white or yellow
   "He presented her with a bouquet of red roses"
    
2. Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
   "The gardener carefully pruned the rose";
   - rosebush
    
3. A dusty pink colour
   "The sunset cast a rose glow over the mountains";
   - rosiness
    
4. A rounded nozzle with fine holes used to produce a spray, e.g. for a watering can or shower
   "She replaced the old rose on her watering can to get a finer spray"
    
5. The base of a light socket
   "The electrician carefully installed the new rose before attaching the light fixture"

1. Of something having a dusty purplish pink colour
   "the rose glow of dawn";
   - roseate, rosaceous

1. Pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
   "They sipped chilled rosé on the patio";
   - blush wine, pink wine, rose wine

1. Move upward
   "The fog rose";
   - lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise [archaic, literary]
    
2. Increase in value or to a higher point
   "the value of our house rose sharply last year";
   - go up, climb
    
3. Become or appear high or tall
   "The building rose before them";
   - lift, rear
    
4. Get on one's feet from a sitting or kneeling position
   "The audience rose and applauded";
   - arise, uprise [archaic, literary], get up, stand up
    
5. Go up or advance
   "Sales were rising after prices were lowered";
   - wax, mount, climb
    
6. Get up and out of bed
   "They rose early";
   - get up, turn out, arise, uprise [archaic, literary]
    
7. Become more extreme
   "The tension rose";
   - heighten
    
8. Increase in rank or status
   "Her new novel rose high on the bestseller list";
   - jump, climb up
    
9. Move to a better position in life or to a better job
   "She rose from a life of poverty to one of great renown";
   - ascend, move up
    
10. Come into existence; take on form or shape
    "A new religious movement rose in that country";
    - originate, arise, develop, uprise [archaic, literary], spring up, grow
     
11. Come to the surface
    "Bubbles rose up from the depths"; "The fish rose to catch the bait";
    - surface, come up, rise up
     
12. Become heartened or elated
    "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
     
13. Increase in volume
    "the dough rose slowly in the warm room";
    - prove
     
14. (astronomy) come up, of celestial bodies
    "The sun also rises";
    - come up, uprise [archaic, literary], ascend
     
15. Exert oneself to meet a challenge
    "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
     
16. Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
    "Students rose up to protest unfair policies";
    - rebel, arise, rise up
     
17. Return from the dead
    "The dead are to rise";
    - resurrect, uprise [archaic, literary]

Sounds like: rooting, ro, rose, rows, roe

Derived forms: roses, rosés

See also: chromatic

Type of: alter, appear, ascend, become, bush, change, change posture, dissent, exit, flower, get out, go, go out, go up, grow, increase, leave, locomote, look, move, pink, protest, resist, return, seem, shrub, tackle, take on, travel, undertake, vary, vino [informal], wine

Antonym: wane

Part of: genus Rosa, Rosa

Encyclopedia: Rose, Michael