transcription, транскрипция: [ roʊz ]
( roses)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Rose is the past tense of rise .
2.
A rose is a flower, often with a pleasant smell, which grows on a bush with stems that have sharp points called thorns on them.
...a bunch of yellow roses.
N-COUNT
3.
A rose is bush that roses grow on.
Prune rambling roses when the flowers have faded.
N-COUNT
4.
Something that is rose is reddish-pink in colour. ( LITERARY )
...the rose and violet hues of a twilight sky.
COLOUR
5.
If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses , you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
We all knew that life was unlikely to be a bed of roses back in England.
PHRASE : v-link PHR , usu with brd-neg