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roots
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Princeton's WordNet
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
rootsnoun
Ancestors
I have both Irish and German roots.
rootsnoun
Beginnings
Jazz has its roots in blues.
Wikipedia
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.
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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
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
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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'roots' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3808
Anagrams for roots »
roost
stoor
torso
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of roots in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of roots in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of roots in a Sentence
For me, reconnecting to that is actually reconnecting to our roots, to our history, to the way of life of our ancestors. That's a big thing for me.
I decided to bring George Floyd home, now the world can see... where he was really from, where his roots was from.
I was planning to grow old here, a house on a hill was my dream... it's my dream home and every detail is built with my roots.
We have had roots in Iraq for thousands and thousands of years, it is very important that we protect our language, our being. We respect all people in Iraq, but we refuse to be part of the fighting between Kurds and Arabs. We want to be independent and we need our own system of security for the NPU area.
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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Translations for roots
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- جذورArabic
- kořenyCzech
- rødderDanish
- WurzelnGerman
- ریشهPersian
- juuretFinnish
- sources, origines, aïeuxFrench
- fréamhachaIrish
- जड़ोंHindi
- gyokereiHungarian
- akarIndonesian
- radiciItalian
- ناخ, باوباپیرانKurdish
- radicesLatin
- wortelsDutch
- røtterNorwegian
- korzenie, źródłaPolish
- rădăciniRomanian
- koreneSlovak
- rotterSwedish
- வேர்கள்Tamil
- корінняUkrainian
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