Associations to the word «Rootage»

Adjective

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Dictionary definition

ROOTAGE, noun. Fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith".
ROOTAGE, noun. A developed system of roots.
ROOTAGE, noun. The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope