rose
noun /rəʊz/
/rəʊz/
Idioms 
enlarge image[countable] a flower with a sweet smell that grows on a bush with thorns (= sharp points) on its stems- a bunch of red roses
- a rose bush/garden
- a climbing/rambling rose
Homophones rose | rowsrose rowsTopics Plants and treesb2/rəʊz//rəʊz/- rose noun
- He gave me a single red rose.
- rose verb (past tense of rise)
- Prices rose 2 per cent in December.
- rows noun (plural of row1)
- Five rows of chairs were set out facing the whiteboard.
- rows verb (third person of row1)
- She rows across the river, helping passengers reach the other side.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- pink
- red
- yellow
- …
- garden
- bed
- bush
- …
- a bed of roses
- a dozen roses
- the scent of a rose
- …
- (also rose pink)[uncountable] a pink colourMore Like This Colour compoundsColour compounds
- baby blue
- china-blue
- cobalt blue
- electric blue
- ice-blue
- midnight blue
- navy blue
- peacock blue
- petrol blue
- powder blue
- royal blue
- sky-blue
- blood-red
- cherry red
- pillar-box red
- wine red
- bottle-green
- emerald green
- jade green
- lime green
- olive-green
- pea-green
- sea-green
- lemon yellow
- primrose yellow
- lily-white
- snow-white
- coal-black
- jet black
- pitch-black
- charcoal grey
- iron-grey
- slate-grey
- rose pink
- salmon pink
- shocking pink
- nut-brown
- [countable] a piece of metal or plastic with small holes in it that is attached to the end of a pipe or watering can so that the water comes out in a fine spray when you are watering plants
- (also ceiling rose)(specialist) a round object that is fixed to the ceiling of a room for the wires of an electric light to go through see also English rose
Idioms
be coming up roses
- (informal) (of a situation) to be developing in a successful way
- Everything’s coming up roses!
(not) a bed of roses
- (not) an easy or a pleasant situation
- Their life together hasn't exactly been a bed of roses.
come up/out of something smelling of roses
- (informal) to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you
- Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses.
put roses in somebody’s cheeks
- (British English, informal) to make somebody look healthy
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- (saying) what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called