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An English and Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic derived from any of several places of that name, from Scottish Gaelic ros (“headland”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname, of early 19th century and later usage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marin County, California.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Audubon County, Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dieter Township, Roseau County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Mountrail County, North Dakota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Butler County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in McLennan County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Forest County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Liberty, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Ross Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A hamlet in Middleton parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1336).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A coastal hamlet south of Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX6444).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A coastal locality near Burnmouth, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT9660).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A village in Northern Midlands council area, Tasmania, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A small town in the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The rough, scaly surface on the bark of trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A swamp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Wales
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verb
To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal, transitive
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noun
American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress
noun
a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: politician, politico, pol, political leader
noun
British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Sir Ronald Ross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
noun
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: explorer, adventurer
noun
Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: John Ross, Sir John Ross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: explorer, adventurer
History
* As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Roose in Cumbria or Roos in Yorkshire, both from Scottish Gaelic ros (“promontory”) or a Brythonic parallel of its source such as Welsh rhos (“moor, heath”). There were also several Norman families in Scotland who took their name from Rots in Calvados. Compare Rose, Rhodes. * As an English surname, from Wrose in Shipley, with loss of initial w. * As an English and German surname, from derivatives of the old Germanic root common in names *hrōþi (“fame”). Compare Rossell. * As a Cornish surname, from several places in Cornwall deriving from ros (“heathland”), related to the above Celtic word meaning "heath" or "promontory." See Rouse. * As a Jewish and German occupational surname for a breeder of horses, from the regional/poetic noun Ross (“horse”). Doublet of horse. * Also as a Jewish surname, Americanized from Rose.
From Welsh rhos.
