An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”). / An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player.

(Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse. / (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.

(transitive, intransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout. / (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.

The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.

To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. / To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings. / To be firmly fixed; to be established.

(intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)

(transitive, informal) To encourage (a favored person, team, or result).

Ancestry. / Beginnings; origin.

plural of root

simple past tense and past participle of root