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roots

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rootsnoun

    the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage

    "his roots in Texas go back a long way"; "he went back to Sweden to search for his roots"; "his music has African roots"

Wiktionary

  1. rootsnoun

    Ancestors

    I have both Irish and German roots.

  2. rootsnoun

    Beginnings

    Jazz has its roots in blues.

Wikipedia

  1. Roots

    Roots is a song by American rock band Imagine Dragons. It was written by band members Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds and Wayne Sermon and originally released as a non-album single, however it appears as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their third studio album Evolve. They performed the song for the first time on September 2, 2015, at their Melbourne, Australia, show for the Smoke + Mirrors Tour. The music video was released on September 29, 2015, and was filmed in New Zealand. The song debuted atop the Billboard Rock Digital Songs chart.

ChatGPT

  1. roots

    In mathematics, roots are the solutions to an equation, particularly referring to the values when a polynomial or equation equals zero. They are also known as zeroes. In the field of biology, roots refer to the part of a plant that is typically underground, absorbing water and nutrients, anchoring the plant, and storing food. In linguistics, roots are the most basic form of a word from which other words are derived. In genealogy, roots refer to an individual's ancestry or origin. In music, a root is the note upon which a chord is based. Therefore, the general definition of roots varies across different fields but generally refers to the base, origin, or foundation of something.

Wikidata

  1. Roots

    Roots is a television miniseries in the USA based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family; the series first aired in 1977. Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which still holds a record as the third-highest-rated US television program ever. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte. A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas TV movie, starring Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. first aired in 1988.

Editors Contribution

  1. rootsnoun

    Plural noun of the word root.

    The roots from the banana plant are amazing to see.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 4, 2016  

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  1. roots

    Song lyrics by roots -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by roots on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ROOTS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Roots is ranked #22856 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Roots surname appeared 1,120 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Roots.

    46.8% or 525 total occurrences were Black.
    43.7% or 490 total occurrences were White.
    5.1% or 58 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.3% or 38 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'roots' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3808

Anagrams for roots »

  1. roost

  2. stoor

  3. torso

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of roots in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of roots in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of roots in a Sentence

  1. Mitt Romney:

    Donald Trump is a big megaphone. And I think that some of the things he's said, particularly about Hispanics, will be problematic, certainly for him, if he were to go to the next stage, but for whoever our nominee is, now if our nominee happened to be someone like Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush, who have strong Hispanic roots themselves and connections themselves, that might not be as big an issue.

  2. Lou Pitt:

    Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots, through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.

  3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  4. Edward Kwon:

    The most important thing is that my Korean food is reinterpreted in a modern way, but that in the taste and the roots, it's perfectly Korean, if you don't protect your roots, the globalization of Korean food is meaningless.

  5. Josiah Stamp, Attibuted to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue.:

    The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.

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