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Webster 1913 Edition


Roseate

Ro′se-ate

,
Adj.
[Cf. L.
roseus
,
rosatus
, prepared from roses. See
Roseal
,
Rose
.]
1.
Full of roses; rosy;
as,
roseate
bowers
.
2.
resembling a rose in color or fragrance; esp., tinged with rose color; blooming;
as,
roseate
beauty; her
roseate
lips
.
Roseate tern
(Zool.)
,
an American and European tern (
Sterna Dougalli
) whose breast is roseate in the breeding season.

Webster 1828 Edition


Roseate

RO'SEATE

,
Adj.
1.
Rosy; full of roses; as roseate bowers.
2.
Blooming; of a rose color; as roseate beauty.

Definition 2024


roseate

roseate

English

Adjective

roseate (comparative more roseate, superlative most roseate)

  1. Like the rose flower; pink; rosy.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 7
      The countess took the roseate palm and snowy fingers og htis lovely child.

Usage notes

A formal term, primarily used in animal names, and not known or used in common speech. Casual equivalents are pink, rosy, pinkish, and the like.

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