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roots

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1. roots(noun)

   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"

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1. roots(Noun)

   Ancestors

   I have both Irish and German roots.

2. roots(Noun)

   Beginnings

   Jazz has its roots in blues.

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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.

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1. roots

   Plural noun of root.

   The roots from the banana plant spread out over the ground underneath so the farmers measured them and knew how far to space the plants apart.

   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.

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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Dolly Parton:

   Storms make trees take deeper roots.

2. Aristotle:

   The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

3. Willie Tolbert:

   When you have roots, you bring forth more fruit, he has roots.

4. kainat khan:

   the roots of education are sometimes bitter but fruits are always sweet.

5. Harry S Truman:

   Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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