Definitions for roots
roots

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rootsnoun

   Ancestors

   I have both Irish and German roots.

2. rootsnoun

   Beginnings

   Jazz has its roots in blues.

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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  

Suggested Resources(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. roots

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

Matched Categories

1. • Condition

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

Anagrams for roots »

1. roost, stoor, torso

How to pronounce roots?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say roots in sign language?

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. Paul Chabot:

   When I was growing up in a Republican state, we had safe towns and great schools, but California has done a 180. It’s not a family-friendly state anymore so we decided to move to Texas. When Chabot, his wife Brenda and their four children arrived in McKinney – a town about 30 miles north of Dallas – they realized that many of the 168,000-plus residents of the town had pulled up their own roots in California and headed to the Lone Star state. That gave Chabot an idea.

2. Jeff Lurie:

   Philadelphia fans grow up expecting toughness, all-out effort and a workmanlike attitude from this team and so much of that image has its roots in the way Chuck played the game.

3. Colin Campbell:

   Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis.

4. Ben Scott-Robinson:

   It creates a current that goes through the roots of the plant through the soil and then back up, which completely destroys the weed, we can go to each individual plant that is threatening the crop plants and take it out.

5. Nancy Krieger:

   If they have issues going on with, for example, high blood pressure, there may be roots to that in addition to whatever else is going on in their lives that could potentially be contributing to high blood pressure.

Popularity rank by frequency of use