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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
Adam Davidson

Meaning of "roots" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROOTS

roots  [ruːts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROOTS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roots is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ROOTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Root (disambiguation)

A root is the part of a plant that is below ground. Root or roots may also refer to...

Definition of roots in the English dictionary

The definition of roots in the dictionary is going back to the origins of a style, esp in being genuine and unpretentious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROOTS


boots
buːts
bossyboots
ˈbɒsɪˌbuːts
cahoots
kəˈhuːts
grass-roots
ˈɡrɑːsˌruːts
gumboots
ˈɡʌmˌbuːts
hoots
huːts
institutes
ˈɪnstɪˌtjuːts
lutz
luːts
moonboots
ˈmuːnbuːts
slyboots
ˈslaɪˌbuːts
smarty-boots
ˈsmɑːtɪˌbuːts
statutes
ˈstætʃuːts
wootz
wuːts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROOTS

rootedness
rooter
roothold
rootiness
rooting compound
rooting reflex
rootkit
rootle
rootless
rootlessness
rootlet
rootlike
roots music
rootserver
rootsiness
rootstalk
rootstock
rootsy
rootworm
rooty

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROOTS

bamboo shoots
bet one´s boots
cowboy boots
desert boots
fill your boots
foots
grass roots
have one´s heart in one´s boots
hiking boots
in cahoots
jodhpur boots
kinky boots
riding boots
rubber boots
thigh boots
too big for one´s boots
toots
top boots
voetstoots
Wellington boots

Synonyms and antonyms of roots in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ROOTS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «roots» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of roots

Translation of «roots» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROOTS

Find out the translation of roots to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of roots from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roots» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

raíces
570 millions of speakers

English

roots
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जड़ें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جذور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

корни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raízes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শিকড়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

racines
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Akar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wurzeln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ルーツ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뿌리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rễ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வேர்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुळं
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kökleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

radici
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

korzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коріння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rădăcini
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρίζες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wortels
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rötter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

røtter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roots

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOTS»

The term «roots» is very widely used and occupies the 7.491 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of roots
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROOTS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «roots» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «roots» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roots

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10 QUOTES WITH «ROOTS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word roots.
1
John R. Allen
We don't want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.
2
Rick Allen
If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
3
Vidya Balan
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
4
Leonard Baskin
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
5
Benjamin Booker
Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.
6
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
7
Douglas Conant
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
8
David Cunliffe
I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.
9
Dinesh D'Souza
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.
10
Adam Davidson
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROOTS»

Discover the use of roots in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roots and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Roots
This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley's own 12 year search for his family's origins.
Alex Haley, 1976
2
Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots
Unlike many programs that depend on rote memorization, Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots incorporates a variety of techniques to teach students the skills they need to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words, while also expanding ...
Elizabeth Osborne, 2005
3
Levi Roots’ Reggae Reggae Cookbook
TV chef, dragon slayer and bestselling author Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot'n'spicy Caribbean cookbook.
Levi Roots, 2010
4
Roots
Kick off a plant unit right with Plant Parts from Pebble Plus.
Vijaya Khisty Bodach, Gail Saunders-Smith, 2006
5
Greek and Latin Roots: Keys to Building Vocabulary: Keys to ...
Suitable for K-12 teachers, this book provides the latest research on strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching Greek and Latin roots including prefixes, suffixes, and bases to help instruct learners in vocabulary development, improve ...
Timothy Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Rick M. Newton, 2008
6
The Greek and Latin Roots of English
The fourth edition of The Greek & Latin Roots of English approaches the study of Latin and Greek thematically: vocabulary is organized into various topics, including politics and government, psychology, medicine and the biological sciences, ...
Tamara M. Green, 2008
7
The Roots Of Romanticism
The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio.
Isaiah Berlin, 2012
8
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
This 2003 book offers a truly systematic comparative and empirical examination of anti-Semitism within Europe before the Holocaust.
William Brustein, 2003
9
Tap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing
Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was first used in publicity to describe this new American style of dance, this text separates the cultural, societal and historical ...
Mark Knowles, 2002
10
The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.
Calvert Watkins, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROOTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roots is used in the context of the following news items.
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Laurence Fishburne plants 'Roots' in A&E miniseries reboot
Roots: The Saga of an American Family” will tell the story of Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte and will incorporate material from the “Roots” novel as well as ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
Will Affleck flap cause 'Roots' cancellation?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS put its Finding Your Roots series on hold Wednesday after determining an episode that omitted references to Ben Affleck 's ... «USA TODAY, Jun 15»
3
Flaming Lips, Roots among artists at Pan Am Games
TORONTO – Psych-rock outfit the Flaming Lips and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon band the Roots will perform free public shows during the Pan Am ... «Globalnews.ca, May 15»
4
'Roots' Remake a Go at History, A&E, Lifetime
Will Packer (Ride Along) is set to executive produce alongside original Roots star LeVar Burton, who will co-exec produce. Mark Wolper also will serve as an EP ... «Hollywood Reporter, Apr 15»
5
Ben Affleck's Mom Reveals More Errors in Finding Your Roots
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Ben Affleck has apologized for pressuring Finding Your Roots to cover up his slave-owning ancestry. The embarrassing ... «The Inquisitr, Apr 15»
6
Critics pile on, Affleck names 'Roots' relative
After emails from the Sony hack leaked containing information that Ben Affleck shut down a segment on Finding Your Roots that revealed he had a slave-owning ... «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
7
Ben Affleck sorry he had 'Finding Your Roots' conceal slave-owning …
The movie star and director — whose family history was examined in September on the PBS genealogy series "Finding Your Roots" — urged the producers to ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
8
Affleck tried to hide his slave-owning 'Roots'
Ben Affleck pushed to ensure his slave-owning ancestor was not featured on the PBS documentary series Finding Your Roots, leaked emails published on ... «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
9
Madonna, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Perform "Holiday" With …
From doing stand-up comedy to sharing Beastie Boys make out sessions, but the biggest highlight came when she, Fallon, and The Roots performed her classic ... «VH1, Apr 15»
10
Crying Villanova 'Piccolo Girl' Goes on Jimmy Fallon, Plays with The …
On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday, Roxanne Chalifoux played with The Roots and talked about the moment and the resulting memes. «Bleacher Report, Mar 15»

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