Rosa meaning

rōzə; It pzä
Mountain in the Pennine Alps, on the Swiss-Italian border: 15,217 ft (4,638 m)
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(slang, Australia) To hide, vanish, shadow.

Weren't we meant to have dinner with Jane?

No, she unfortunately had to rosa.

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(slang, Australia) No-show, someone who does not show up as expected.

Every time we organise to have dinner, she never turns up.

I know, she is such a rosa.

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A female given name ; a Latinized variant of Rose.
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Origin of rosa

  • Believed to derive from the name of the Australian native bird rosella (genus Platycercus), a small parrot noted for its ability to vanish when the need arises.

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  • From Latin rosa (“rose").

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Rosa Sentence Examples

  • To the east this plain stretches in an unbroken level, as far as the eye can follow it, towards Venice and the Adriatic; on the southern side the line of the Apennines from Bologna to Genoa closes the view; to the west rise the Maritime, Cottian and Graian Alps, with Monte Viso as their central point; while northward are the Pennine, Helvetic and Rhaetian Alps, of which Monte Rosa, the Saasgrat and Monte Leone are the most conspicuous features.

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