ROSARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rosary mean? 

• ROSARY (noun)
  The noun ROSARY has 1 sense:

1. a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)

  Familiarity information: ROSARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

prayer beads; rosary

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

beads; string of beads (several beads threaded together on a string)

 Context examples 

She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round my neck, and said, "For your mother's sake," and went out of the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I wish I knew where all these pretty things would go when Aunt March dies," she said, as she slowly replaced the shining rosary and shut the jewel cases one by one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Further on he met a sturdy black-bearded man, mounted on a brown horse, with a rosary in his right hand and a long two-handed sword jangling against his stirrup-iron.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I dare scarce wag my tongue so freely with you as when we tramped together past Wilverley Chase, else I might be your guide now, for indeed I know every house in Bordeaux as a friar knows the beads on his rosary.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Esther had given her a rosary of black beads with a silver cross, but Amy hung it up and did not use it, feeling doubtful as to its fitness for Protestant prayers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"On the contrary, I like it very much, dear," looking from the dusty rosary to the well-worn little book, and the lovely picture with its garland of evergreen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I, too, covet that, but not as a necklace. Ah, no! To me it is a rosary, and as such I should use it like a good catholic," said Esther, eyeing the handsome thing wistfully.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)