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{
"term": "rose",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/fl/flowers.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a flower with a sweet smell that grows on a bush with thorns (= sharp points) on its stems",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a bunch of red roses"
},
{
"text": "a **rose bush/garden**"
},
{
"text": "a **climbing/rambling rose**"
}
],
"topics": ["Plants and trees"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["pink", "red", "yellow"],
"rose + noun": ["garden", "bed", "bush"],
"phrases": ["a bed of roses", "a dozen roses", "the scent of a rose"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a pink colour",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "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",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a round object that is fixed to the ceiling of a room for the wires of an electric light to go through",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be developing in a successful way",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Everything’s coming up roses!"
}
],
"topics": ["Success"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "(not) an easy or a pleasant situation",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their life together hasn't exactly been a bed of roses."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in something that might have given people a bad opinion of you",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Nobody ever knew the details and he came out of the deal smelling of roses."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to make somebody look healthy",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊz/",
"audio": "ro/rose/rose__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊz/",
"audio": "ro/rose/rose__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}