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Definition: Roseate |
RoseateAdjective1. Having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roseate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Roseate \Ro"se*ate\, adjective. [Compare to Latin roseus, rosatus, prepared from roses. See Roseal, Rose.]. (references) |
Synonyms: RoseateSynonyms: rosaceous (adj), rose (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hope | Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Roseate |
| English words defined with "roseate": Acheronian, Acherontic ♦ Kakatoe leadbeateri ♦ pink cockatoo ♦ rosaceous, rose, Roseate tern, Rose-pink ♦ Stygian. (references) |
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 | Roseate spoonbills - Ajaia Ajaja - can be seen feeding in the salt marsh areas of Canaveral National Seashore during the spring and fall. The Roseate spoonbill is Florida's only native pink bird, the flamingo is not native and if found in the wild is usually an escapee from local attractions. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Roseate spoonbills in flight. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A roseate spoonbill in the shallows adjacent to a stand of mangroves. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Roseate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Roseate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "roseate": rose roseate ♦ roseate spoonbill ♦ roseate tern. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
roseate spoonbill | 16 |
roseate tern | 9 |
nocturne roseate | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "roseate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i trëndafiltë (damask, rosy). (various references) | |
Arabic | وردي (carnation, florid, pink, rosaceous, rose, rosy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | розов (carnation, pink, rose, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy). (various references) | |
Czech | rùžový (pink, rose, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy), nadìjný (auspicious, chanceful, hoped-for, hopeful, promising, up and coming). (various references) | |
Danish | naesekakadue (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo), dougallsterne (roseate tern). (various references) | |
Dutch | langsnavelkaketoe (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo), langsnavelkakatoe (gulah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo, slender billed cockatoo), Dougall's stern (roseate tern). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرگل , گلی (Draggy, Earthen, Muddy), گلگون (Rosy, Ruddy), خوش بین (Optimist, Optimistic, Upbeat), بشاش (Cheerful, Jocund, Riant). (various references) | |
French | rose (rose, rose coloured). (various references) | |
German | rosenrot (rose), rosenfarbe. (various references) | |
Greek | ρόδινοσ (rosy), ροδώδησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ורו" (pink, rose, rose coloured, rosy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rózsaszínû (pink, pinkish, pinky, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy). (various references) | |
Italian | roseo (pinkish, rose colored, rosy). (various references) | |
Manx | gant ruy (roseate tern), gant ruissagh (roseate tern), gant eairkagh (roseate tern, sandwich tern). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oseateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rosado (auroral, florid, flush, pinkish, pinky, rose-colored, rose-coloured, rosy, ruddy), róseo (pinkish, pinky, rose-colored, rose-coloured, rosy, ruddy), cor-de-rosa (pink, rose, rose-colored, rose-coloured, rosy). (various references) | |
Russian | светлый (bright, clear, fair, light, lucid), розовый (incarnadine, pink, rose, rose colored, rose coloured, rose-colored), радостный (glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ružičast (rose, rosy). (various references) | |
Spanish | rosado (pink, pinkish, rose, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy), róseo. (various references) | |
Swedish | rosenröd. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งเป็นสีกุหลาบ, มองโลกในแง่"ี. (various references) | |
Turkish | pembe (carnation, garnet, pink, rhodo-, rose, rose color, rose colored, rose colour, rose coloured, rose-pink, rosy), iyimser (hopeful, optimist, optimistic, pollyanna, sanguine), güllük gülistanlık (rosy), gül rengi (rhodo-), ümit verici (encouraging, hopeful, promising, rosy, up and coming). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рожевий (auroral, incarnadine, pink, pinky, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy), радісний (cheery, cock-a-hoop, elate, elated, festal, glad, gleeful, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rosy), зроблений з троянд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui tươi (jolly), lạc quan (optimist, rose-coloured, sanguine), h"ng (bay, rose, rose-coloured, rosy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cacatus tenuirostris, RM:pestgarel da Dougall, Sterna dougallii. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roseate": roseately. (additional references) | |
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"Roseate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fosgate, Josevate, osiate, Ousegate, reseade, Reseater, Roeselare, Rokeach, Ronsnade, Rosati, Rosato, rosea, roseage, roseape, roseare, roseat, Rosenauer, Roseraie, roseta, rosete, rosnaree, Rosneath, Rotavata, rotavate, Trosavat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "roseate" (pronounced 'Ro"se*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aretes, easter, eaters, oaters, orates, reseat, seater, stereo, teaser. | |
-2 letters: arete, arose, aster, eater, erase, erose, ester, oater, orate, rates, ratos, reest, reset, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, saree, setae, stare, steer, stere, stoae, store, tares, taros, tears, tease, terse, toeas, toras, tores, torse, trees. | |
-3 letters: aero, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, ease, east. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: earstone, keratose, oleaster, operates, overeats, protease, resonate. | |
+2 letters: aerolites, carotenes, cocreates, corelates, decorates, derogates, desolater, earstones, elastomer, elevators, ephorates, esoterica, foredates, forestage, foretaste, fosterage, gasometer, heartsome, heartsore, keratoses, levatores, moderates, oleasters, operettas, osmeteria, overbeats, overhates, overheats, overrates, overstate, overtakes, overtaxes, periostea, perorates, personate, poetaster, proteases, relocates, renovates, resonated, resonates, roseately, rosewater, salometer, stoneware, takeovers, tolerates, trehalose. | |
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