how to pronounce rose

/ˈɹoʊz/

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rose is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of rose in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… there it starts to rose 37 degrees for …”

meanings of rose

noun:

The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed.
Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares.
Alternative spelling of rosé.
A flower of the rose plant.
The base of a light socket.
The winner of that year's contest.
Something resembling a rose flower.
A regional contestant in the annual Rose of Tralee contest.
A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers.
A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers.
A plant or species in the rose family.
A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose.
Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta.
A graph with only one vertex.

verb:

To perfume, as with roses.
Past participle of rise.
Simple past tense of rise.
To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush.

name:

A surname.
A female given name from Germanic.

adjective:

Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy.

rose frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word rose occurs in english on average 57.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.