ROOTAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rootage mean? 

• ROOTAGE (noun)
  The noun ROOTAGE has 3 senses:

1. fixedness by or as if by roots

2. a developed system of roots

3. the place where something begins, where it springs into being

  Familiarity information: ROOTAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROOTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fixedness by or as if by roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith

Hypernyms ("rootage" is a kind of...):

fixedness; immobility; stationariness (remaining in place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A developed system of roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

root system; rootage

Hypernyms ("rootage" is a kind of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

Meronyms (parts of "rootage"):

root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The place where something begins, where it springs into being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

beginning; origin; root; rootage; source

Context example:

communism's Russian root

Hypernyms ("rootage" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rootage"):

derivation (the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues))

spring (a point at which water issues forth)

fountainhead; head; headspring (the source of water from which a stream arises)

headwater (the source of a river)

wellhead; wellspring (the source of water for a well)

jumping-off place; point of departure (a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched)

birthplace; cradle; place of origin; provenance; provenience (where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence)

home (place where something began and flourished)

point source (a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted)

trail head; trailhead (the beginning of a trail)

Derivation:

root (come into existence, originate)