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Definition of rose noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rose

noun
rose pronunciation English rəʊz rose pronunciation American roʊz
 
see also rise verb
1 [countable] a flower with a sweet smell that grows on a bush with thorns (= sharp points) on its stemsa bunch of red rosesa rose bush/gardena climbing/rambling rose2 (also rose pink) [uncountable] a pink colour3 [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 plants4 = ceiling rose
Idioms

be coming up roses

(informal) (of a situation) to be developing in a successful wayEverything's coming up 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
 more at (not) a bed of roses at bed noun, come up/out of something smelling of roses at smell verb