Rosalee

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proper noun

A female given name from Latin.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

Rosalee1

proper noun

alternative RosaLee

  1. A female given name from Latin.

    “Oh, ma' am, you should call me Rosalee, like everybody else.” “A lovely name. But then you must call me Meena.”

    2016, Fenton Johnson, The Man Who Loved Birds: A Novel, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN
    1 more example

    Herb and Greta poured through “name” books and the only name they could agree on was “Rosalie.” Greta told Herb that she didn't want her daughter's name to end in a “lie,” and so they named her Rosalee.

    2015, Janice Dickson, Herbert Peppard: The Eternal Man, FriesenPress, →ISBN

RosaLee2

proper noun

alternative Rosalee

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    1 more example

    “I'm twenty-three years old.I can decide what— and when—I drink. And please stop calling me RosaLee. I'm RL,now. Everybody calls me RL.” “But, baby, RosaLee is so dignified. So significant. When we named you after Mrs.Parks, I never dreamed—” “It's old-fashioned. I hate it. It's burdensome. Like I have to live up to it. Ain't even any—”

    2007, Evelyn Palfrey, Dangerous Dilemmas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

Origin

Rosalee · proper noun

A re-spelling of Rosalie.

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RosaLee · proper noun

A re-spelling of Rosalie.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

Rosalee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosalee

MLA

“Rosalee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosalee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Rosalee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosalee.

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