Definition of rosary in English:

rosary

nounPlural rosaries ˈrəʊz(ə)riˈroʊz(ə)ri

1(in the Roman Catholic Church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be.
（天主教）念珠祈祷（一种数念珠的祈祷式，《圣母颂》念五遍或15遍，每遍之前念《主祷文》，之后念《荣耀颂》），玫瑰经
Example sentencesExamples
- After a relative's funeral, families and their friends pray the rosary for nine evenings, offering refreshments after each night's prayers.
- Occasionally he would pray the rosary during the week.
- Isabella felt so blessed by God that she offered two novenas, three rosaries and gave more donations to the order she was part of.
- After the walk, she says the rosary, sometimes all 150 Hail Marys.
- The mission began each morning with a Mass at five o'clock, followed by a second at nine-thirty and rosary in the evenings at seven with instruction.
- Nevertheless about 10 per cent of the early convicts were Catholics, and a network formed among emancipists to pray the rosary and maintain other devotional practices.
- I'm not one of those church-going kids who prays the rosary every night.
- Feasts of the village patron saint are celebrated, the rosary said every evening and funeral rites arranged and paid for when necessary.
- Claudette couldn't concentrate on the epistle or the gospel, couldn't settle down to the rosary.
- The old ladies were praying a rosary in the back of the bus.
- After each vision I would find the nearest church, seek sanctuary, kneel, and pray the rosary.
- Instead of saying the rosary, I kept saying her name as I paced my office wishing that I smoked (it was fine in the end).
- Do the Catholics make you say the rosary before lunch?
- She found an empty place in a pew in the back of the church and after she genuflected, knelt and began her rosary.
- They took communion; they recited the rosary (an increasingly popular devotion in this period); and they made their confessions, usually to a priest or a friar.
- He holds a degree from Northwestern University, speaks four languages fluently and as ‘a good Catholic boy’ he prayed the rosary after Mass every Sunday.
- It had been a day or two since I had sat in a dimmed church, all alone, to say the rosary.
1. 1.1 A string of beads for keeping count in a rosary or in the devotions of some other religions, in Roman Catholic use 55 or 165 in number.
  （一串）念珠（天主教或其他一些宗教作祈祷时用的念珠，天主教使用55或165颗念珠）
  she is telling her rosary
  as modifier rosary beads
  Example sentencesExamples
  He sighed deeply and I could hear him shift his fingers through the beads of his rosary.
  For the final touch, she'd added a rosary made of black glass and pewter, finishing off the look she was going for perfectly.
  He made the sign of the cross and grabbed his rosary.
  One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands.
  Her head was bowed, lips moving silently as she clutched her rosary beads.
  She went to Mass when she could get a ride; she ran her fingers over her plastic rosary, saying Hail Marys with each bead.
  It still has the red-beaded rosary I left on top of it when I came to visit.
  Taking a deep breath of his own, Patrick looked over at his mother as she slowly rocked back and forth, counting the beads of her rosary.
  Some delay to ensure every petal on their rose, each side of their prayer card and every bead of their rosary makes contact.
  I put on my wedding band and I grabbed my rosary, and I went upstairs.
  She lifted the rosary that hung at her belt and gently kissed it.
  I'll look for the rosary Mama gave me on my birthday.
  With her free hand in her pocket, clutching her rosary, she steeled herself against the crowd and followed Sean into the gym.
  She had her rosary beads, and was praying to St. Catherine.
  People I've never met before have sent me novena cards and rosary beads, and two or three people apologised to me and wished me support.
  So we can use things like crosses, holy water, bibles, rosaries, and even something as small as a speck of holy ashes.
  According to chronicler William of Malmesbury, her dying act was characteristically pious: as a final gift to the Priory, she ordered hung about the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary her personal rosary of precious stones.
  I stroked the beads of the rosary, and the glitter of the tiny crucifix caught my eye.
  On the cot a seventy four-year lady is sitting with her rosary beads and chanting softly.
  The cousin put away his rosary and put on a confessional grin to admit, correctly in our eyes, that ‘Well, I guess it helps to have a Lutheran in the stands every now and then.’
  Synonyms
  strand, rope, necklace, chaplet
2. 1.2 A book containing a rosary.
  《玫瑰经》
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their mailbox is packed daily with letters from well-wishers containing prayer cards, medals and rosaries.
  There are shops and stalls where you can buy rosaries, beads, postcards, books and fluffy toys.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'rose garden'): from Latin rosarium 'rose garden', based on rosa 'rose'.

Rhymes

causerie

Definition of rosary in US English:

rosary

nounˈroʊz(ə)riˈrōz(ə)rē

1(in the Roman Catholic Church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be.
（天主教）念珠祈祷（一种数念珠的祈祷式，《圣母颂》念五遍或15遍，每遍之前念《主祷文》，之后念《荣耀颂》），玫瑰经
the congregation said the rosary
全体教徒念玫瑰经。
Example sentencesExamples
- Occasionally he would pray the rosary during the week.
- After each vision I would find the nearest church, seek sanctuary, kneel, and pray the rosary.
- She found an empty place in a pew in the back of the church and after she genuflected, knelt and began her rosary.
- Claudette couldn't concentrate on the epistle or the gospel, couldn't settle down to the rosary.
- Feasts of the village patron saint are celebrated, the rosary said every evening and funeral rites arranged and paid for when necessary.
- After a relative's funeral, families and their friends pray the rosary for nine evenings, offering refreshments after each night's prayers.
- I'm not one of those church-going kids who prays the rosary every night.
- He holds a degree from Northwestern University, speaks four languages fluently and as ‘a good Catholic boy’ he prayed the rosary after Mass every Sunday.
- Instead of saying the rosary, I kept saying her name as I paced my office wishing that I smoked (it was fine in the end).
- After the walk, she says the rosary, sometimes all 150 Hail Marys.
- It had been a day or two since I had sat in a dimmed church, all alone, to say the rosary.
- They took communion; they recited the rosary (an increasingly popular devotion in this period); and they made their confessions, usually to a priest or a friar.
- The old ladies were praying a rosary in the back of the bus.
- Isabella felt so blessed by God that she offered two novenas, three rosaries and gave more donations to the order she was part of.
- Nevertheless about 10 per cent of the early convicts were Catholics, and a network formed among emancipists to pray the rosary and maintain other devotional practices.
- The mission began each morning with a Mass at five o'clock, followed by a second at nine-thirty and rosary in the evenings at seven with instruction.
- Do the Catholics make you say the rosary before lunch?
1. 1.1 A string of beads for keeping count in a rosary or in the devotions of some other religions.
  （一串）念珠（天主教或其他一些宗教作祈祷时用的念珠，天主教使用55或165颗念珠）
  Example sentencesExamples
  With her free hand in her pocket, clutching her rosary, she steeled herself against the crowd and followed Sean into the gym.
  For the final touch, she'd added a rosary made of black glass and pewter, finishing off the look she was going for perfectly.
  He made the sign of the cross and grabbed his rosary.
  She lifted the rosary that hung at her belt and gently kissed it.
  The cousin put away his rosary and put on a confessional grin to admit, correctly in our eyes, that ‘Well, I guess it helps to have a Lutheran in the stands every now and then.’
  On the cot a seventy four-year lady is sitting with her rosary beads and chanting softly.
  One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands.
  According to chronicler William of Malmesbury, her dying act was characteristically pious: as a final gift to the Priory, she ordered hung about the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary her personal rosary of precious stones.
  People I've never met before have sent me novena cards and rosary beads, and two or three people apologised to me and wished me support.
  He sighed deeply and I could hear him shift his fingers through the beads of his rosary.
  I put on my wedding band and I grabbed my rosary, and I went upstairs.
  So we can use things like crosses, holy water, bibles, rosaries, and even something as small as a speck of holy ashes.
  I stroked the beads of the rosary, and the glitter of the tiny crucifix caught my eye.
  She had her rosary beads, and was praying to St. Catherine.
  Her head was bowed, lips moving silently as she clutched her rosary beads.
  I'll look for the rosary Mama gave me on my birthday.
  Taking a deep breath of his own, Patrick looked over at his mother as she slowly rocked back and forth, counting the beads of her rosary.
  She went to Mass when she could get a ride; she ran her fingers over her plastic rosary, saying Hail Marys with each bead.
  It still has the red-beaded rosary I left on top of it when I came to visit.
  Some delay to ensure every petal on their rose, each side of their prayer card and every bead of their rosary makes contact.
  Synonyms
  strand, rope, necklace, chaplet
2. 1.2 A book containing a rosary.
  《玫瑰经》
  Example sentencesExamples
  Their mailbox is packed daily with letters from well-wishers containing prayer cards, medals and rosaries.
  There are shops and stalls where you can buy rosaries, beads, postcards, books and fluffy toys.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘rose garden’): from Latin rosarium ‘rose garden’, based on rosa ‘rose’.

单词	rosary
释义	Definition of rosary in English: rosary nounPlural rosaries ˈrəʊz(ə)riˈroʊz(ə)ri 1(in the Roman Catholic Church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be. （天主教）念珠祈祷（一种数念珠的祈祷式，《圣母颂》念五遍或15遍，每遍之前念《主祷文》，之后念《荣耀颂》），玫瑰经 Example sentencesExamples After a relative's funeral, families and their friends pray the rosary for nine evenings, offering refreshments after each night's prayers. Occasionally he would pray the rosary during the week. Isabella felt so blessed by God that she offered two novenas, three rosaries and gave more donations to the order she was part of. After the walk, she says the rosary, sometimes all 150 Hail Marys. The mission began each morning with a Mass at five o'clock, followed by a second at nine-thirty and rosary in the evenings at seven with instruction. Nevertheless about 10 per cent of the early convicts were Catholics, and a network formed among emancipists to pray the rosary and maintain other devotional practices. I'm not one of those church-going kids who prays the rosary every night. Feasts of the village patron saint are celebrated, the rosary said every evening and funeral rites arranged and paid for when necessary. Claudette couldn't concentrate on the epistle or the gospel, couldn't settle down to the rosary. The old ladies were praying a rosary in the back of the bus. After each vision I would find the nearest church, seek sanctuary, kneel, and pray the rosary. Instead of saying the rosary, I kept saying her name as I paced my office wishing that I smoked (it was fine in the end). Do the Catholics make you say the rosary before lunch? She found an empty place in a pew in the back of the church and after she genuflected, knelt and began her rosary. They took communion; they recited the rosary (an increasingly popular devotion in this period); and they made their confessions, usually to a priest or a friar. He holds a degree from Northwestern University, speaks four languages fluently and as ‘a good Catholic boy’ he prayed the rosary after Mass every Sunday. It had been a day or two since I had sat in a dimmed church, all alone, to say the rosary. 1.1 A string of beads for keeping count in a rosary or in the devotions of some other religions, in Roman Catholic use 55 or 165 in number. （一串）念珠（天主教或其他一些宗教作祈祷时用的念珠，天主教使用55或165颗念珠） she is telling her rosary as modifier rosary beads Example sentencesExamples He sighed deeply and I could hear him shift his fingers through the beads of his rosary. For the final touch, she'd added a rosary made of black glass and pewter, finishing off the look she was going for perfectly. He made the sign of the cross and grabbed his rosary. One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands. Her head was bowed, lips moving silently as she clutched her rosary beads. She went to Mass when she could get a ride; she ran her fingers over her plastic rosary, saying Hail Marys with each bead. It still has the red-beaded rosary I left on top of it when I came to visit. Taking a deep breath of his own, Patrick looked over at his mother as she slowly rocked back and forth, counting the beads of her rosary. Some delay to ensure every petal on their rose, each side of their prayer card and every bead of their rosary makes contact. I put on my wedding band and I grabbed my rosary, and I went upstairs. She lifted the rosary that hung at her belt and gently kissed it. I'll look for the rosary Mama gave me on my birthday. With her free hand in her pocket, clutching her rosary, she steeled herself against the crowd and followed Sean into the gym. She had her rosary beads, and was praying to St. Catherine. People I've never met before have sent me novena cards and rosary beads, and two or three people apologised to me and wished me support. So we can use things like crosses, holy water, bibles, rosaries, and even something as small as a speck of holy ashes. According to chronicler William of Malmesbury, her dying act was characteristically pious: as a final gift to the Priory, she ordered hung about the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary her personal rosary of precious stones. I stroked the beads of the rosary, and the glitter of the tiny crucifix caught my eye. On the cot a seventy four-year lady is sitting with her rosary beads and chanting softly. The cousin put away his rosary and put on a confessional grin to admit, correctly in our eyes, that ‘Well, I guess it helps to have a Lutheran in the stands every now and then.’ Synonyms strand, rope, necklace, chaplet 1.2 A book containing a rosary. 《玫瑰经》 Example sentencesExamples Their mailbox is packed daily with letters from well-wishers containing prayer cards, medals and rosaries. There are shops and stalls where you can buy rosaries, beads, postcards, books and fluffy toys. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'rose garden'): from Latin rosarium 'rose garden', based on rosa 'rose'. Rhymes causerie Definition of rosary in US English: rosary nounˈroʊz(ə)riˈrōz(ə)rē 1(in the Roman Catholic Church) a form of devotion in which five (or fifteen) decades of Hail Marys are repeated, each decade preceded by an Our Father and followed by a Glory Be. （天主教）念珠祈祷（一种数念珠的祈祷式，《圣母颂》念五遍或15遍，每遍之前念《主祷文》，之后念《荣耀颂》），玫瑰经 the congregation said the rosary 全体教徒念玫瑰经。 Example sentencesExamples Occasionally he would pray the rosary during the week. After each vision I would find the nearest church, seek sanctuary, kneel, and pray the rosary. She found an empty place in a pew in the back of the church and after she genuflected, knelt and began her rosary. Claudette couldn't concentrate on the epistle or the gospel, couldn't settle down to the rosary. Feasts of the village patron saint are celebrated, the rosary said every evening and funeral rites arranged and paid for when necessary. After a relative's funeral, families and their friends pray the rosary for nine evenings, offering refreshments after each night's prayers. I'm not one of those church-going kids who prays the rosary every night. He holds a degree from Northwestern University, speaks four languages fluently and as ‘a good Catholic boy’ he prayed the rosary after Mass every Sunday. Instead of saying the rosary, I kept saying her name as I paced my office wishing that I smoked (it was fine in the end). After the walk, she says the rosary, sometimes all 150 Hail Marys. It had been a day or two since I had sat in a dimmed church, all alone, to say the rosary. They took communion; they recited the rosary (an increasingly popular devotion in this period); and they made their confessions, usually to a priest or a friar. The old ladies were praying a rosary in the back of the bus. Isabella felt so blessed by God that she offered two novenas, three rosaries and gave more donations to the order she was part of. Nevertheless about 10 per cent of the early convicts were Catholics, and a network formed among emancipists to pray the rosary and maintain other devotional practices. The mission began each morning with a Mass at five o'clock, followed by a second at nine-thirty and rosary in the evenings at seven with instruction. Do the Catholics make you say the rosary before lunch? 1.1 A string of beads for keeping count in a rosary or in the devotions of some other religions. （一串）念珠（天主教或其他一些宗教作祈祷时用的念珠，天主教使用55或165颗念珠） Example sentencesExamples With her free hand in her pocket, clutching her rosary, she steeled herself against the crowd and followed Sean into the gym. For the final touch, she'd added a rosary made of black glass and pewter, finishing off the look she was going for perfectly. He made the sign of the cross and grabbed his rosary. She lifted the rosary that hung at her belt and gently kissed it. The cousin put away his rosary and put on a confessional grin to admit, correctly in our eyes, that ‘Well, I guess it helps to have a Lutheran in the stands every now and then.’ On the cot a seventy four-year lady is sitting with her rosary beads and chanting softly. One man was holding a long string of rosary beads in his trembling hands. According to chronicler William of Malmesbury, her dying act was characteristically pious: as a final gift to the Priory, she ordered hung about the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary her personal rosary of precious stones. People I've never met before have sent me novena cards and rosary beads, and two or three people apologised to me and wished me support. He sighed deeply and I could hear him shift his fingers through the beads of his rosary. I put on my wedding band and I grabbed my rosary, and I went upstairs. So we can use things like crosses, holy water, bibles, rosaries, and even something as small as a speck of holy ashes. I stroked the beads of the rosary, and the glitter of the tiny crucifix caught my eye. She had her rosary beads, and was praying to St. Catherine. Her head was bowed, lips moving silently as she clutched her rosary beads. I'll look for the rosary Mama gave me on my birthday. Taking a deep breath of his own, Patrick looked over at his mother as she slowly rocked back and forth, counting the beads of her rosary. She went to Mass when she could get a ride; she ran her fingers over her plastic rosary, saying Hail Marys with each bead. It still has the red-beaded rosary I left on top of it when I came to visit. Some delay to ensure every petal on their rose, each side of their prayer card and every bead of their rosary makes contact. Synonyms strand, rope, necklace, chaplet 1.2 A book containing a rosary. 《玫瑰经》 Example sentencesExamples Their mailbox is packed daily with letters from well-wishers containing prayer cards, medals and rosaries. There are shops and stalls where you can buy rosaries, beads, postcards, books and fluffy toys. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘rose garden’): from Latin rosarium ‘rose garden’, based on rosa ‘rose’.
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