roses
plural of “rose” — any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
An inflected form of rose · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,483 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,855 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses also: rosebush
- pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began also: blush wine, pink wine, rose wine
- a dusty pink color also: rosiness
roses in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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My husband was rather mad about roses.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Ah roses, love's fair roses, do not languish; Blush through the milk-white veil that holds you covered.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtle's feathers; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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No care now for the new books from London, or the roses in the garden; the music on the instrument was unheeded.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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The patient Daemon sits, With roses and a shroud; He has his way, and deals his gifts,-- But ours is not allowed.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1