American English pronunciation

How to pronounce rosemary

IPA transcription: ['ɹoʊz,mɛɹi]

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Noun

  • widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery

  • extremely pungent leaves used fresh or dried as seasoning for especially meats

Usage examples

  • While stationed in Bournemouth, England Fisher met a female artist named Rosemary Snook.
  • Horror scholar Gary Crawford described "Rosemary's Baby" as "a genuine masterpiece".
  • Hal begins to avoid Rosemary, who becomes melancholic without him around.
  • Editorial assistants included Rosemary Hunter and Rosemary Sorensen.
  • Rosemary Harris played his wife, Minerva.
  • The cast included Robert Picardo, Catherine Hicks, and Rosemary Prinz.
  • Soon after leaving the Senate, Smathers divorced his first wife, heiress Rosemary Townley Smathers.