roots

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːts/
• (Midwestern US) also IPA^(key): /ɹʊts/

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• Rhymes: -uːts

roots

1. plural of root

roots

1. Ancestry.

   I have both Irish and German roots.

2. Beginnings; origin.

   Jazz has its roots in blues.

3. (of hair) Grown-out hair, often of a grey or natural colour.

   I just coloured my hair and already my roots are showing.

• root
• rootsy

• Toors, stoor, torso, rotos, ostro, toros, Oorts, roost, Sorto

Borrowed from English roots.

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roots pl (plural only)

1. roots (ancestry, origin)

   Ik ga terug naar mijn roots in Arnhem.

roots

1. plural of root

roots

1. plural of root