Definitions for Ross

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Ross ross

Spelling: [raws, ros]

IPA: /rɔs, rɒs/

Ross is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Ross (orss).

Definitions for Ross

noun

1. the rough exterior of bark.
2. Betsy Griscom [gris-kuh m] /ˈgrɪs kəm/ (Show IPA), 1752–1836, maker of the first U.S. flag.
3. Harold Wallace, 1892–1951, U.S. publisher and editor.
4. Sir James Clark, 1800–62, English navigator: explorer of the Arctic and the Antarctic.
5. his uncle, Sir John, 1777–1856, Scottish naval officer and arctic explorer.
6. John (CoowescooweorKooweskoowe) 1790–1866, Cherokee leader.
7. Nellie Tayloe [tey-loh] /ˈteɪ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1977, U.S. politician and governor of Wyoming: first woman U.S. governor 1925–27.
8. Sir Ronald, 1857–1932, English physician: Nobel prize 1902.
9. a male given name.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the rough exterior of bark from (a log or the like).

Origin of Ross

First recorded in 1570-80; origin uncertain

Examples for Ross

Before Pathways, ross had significant trouble finding a job.

Rachel starts dating a guy named Russ, and would you believe that he bears a striking resemblance to ross?

She declared Miss ross to be middle-aged, to look younger than she was.

Peter learned a good deal about the ross family in those talks with Jan.

ross has cerebral palsy, and the Pathways to Careers initiative of SourceAmerica helped him get his position.

Miss ross, he feared, was not nearly so sensible as he had thought.

Worse, all of this mugging business reminds ross of when he was mugged as a child.

Why, I just happened to recollect a fact related by Captain ross in his voyages.

In 1797 lines 5-10 were restored to the Man of ross and omitted from the Monody.

“We had thought that ross was going to have to live on Social Security and that was that,” Stuart said.