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rosebud

name · noun · 25 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɹəʊz.bʌd/
  • US: /ˈɹoʊz.bʌd/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: R OW1 Z B AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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name

Meaning 1

A coastal town in Victoria, Australia, named after the wreck of the cargo ship "Rosebud".

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning 2

A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada.

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Meaning 3

An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning 4

An unincorporated community in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.

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Meaning 5

An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana, United States.

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Meaning 6

An unincorporated community in Washington County, Indiana, United States.

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Meaning 7

A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States.

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Meaning 8

An unincorporated community in Rosebud County, Montana, United States, probably named after the Rosebud Creek.

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Meaning 9

An unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States.

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Meaning 10

A census-designated place in Todd County, South Dakota, United States, situated on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

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Meaning 11

A city in Falls County, Texas, United States.

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Meaning 12

A river in Alberta, Canada.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 13

The bud of a rose.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Holonyms: rose < rosebush

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noun

Meaning 14

A pretty young woman.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, sometimes

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noun

Meaning 15

A debutante.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, rare

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noun

Meaning 16

Any of assorted small seashells with a pink or partially pink color, usually of the family Muricidae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

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noun

Meaning 17

A mouth.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Cockney

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Synonyms: bazoo, cakehole, chops, clam, clamshell, gob, hash-trap, kisser, laughing gear, maw, mouth, mush, neb, ned, north and south, oral cavity, os, piehole, potato trap, puss, sucker, trap, yap

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noun

Meaning 18

the indentation of a surface caused by an incorrect hammer strike (missing the nail)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

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noun

Meaning 19

The anus.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, vulgar

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Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, bootyhole, bottom, brown eye, browneye, bumhole, bum, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, butthole, buttonhole, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, cornhole, craphole, cumhole, dinger, ding, dock, dookie hole, dung funnel, exit hole, fartbox, farthole, fourth point of contact, freckle, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, fundament, Gary Glitter, gump stump, Hershey highway, jacksie, jacksy, keister, leather cheerio, love hole, other end, poop chute, pooper, poophole, rear exit, rectum, ringpiece, rosebud, rusty sheriff's badge, shithole, shitter, sluthole, smelly freckle, starfish, stinkhole, tewel, tooter, tradesman's entrance, turd cutter, vent, wazoo, where the sun don't shine, windpipe, ying-yang

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noun

Meaning 20

The clitoris.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang, vulgar

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Synonyms: bean, butter bean, boy in the boat, button, clit, clitoris, devil's doorbell, happy button, jewel, kernel, knob, little man in the boat, lovebud, love button, nub, nubbin, panic button, pearl, skittle, sugar plum, sweet spot

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noun

Meaning 21

A woman's nipples, namely when erect.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-plural, slang

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Synonyms: nipples, blinkers, braille, bullets, bumps, chichis, circuit breakers, cookies, daggers, diamond cutters, dinner plates, glass cutters, high beams, headlights, horns, nertz, nips, nubbins, pancakes, paps, pimentos, pointers, points, raisins, silver dollars, teats, tits, thermometers

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noun

Meaning 22

A member of the most junior division of the Girl Guides Association, now called a Brownie.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, historical

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noun

Meaning 23

Something similar to the ‘Rosebud’ in the movie Citizen Kane in that it is a mysterious clue which provides profound insight into the character of a person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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noun

Meaning 24

(a literary reference to) a pretty young girl

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille

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noun

Meaning 25

the bud of a rose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: bud

History

Etymology

From rosebud.

From rose + bud.