roots

/ ruːts /

adjective

1. (of popular music) going back to the origins of a style, esp in being genuine and unpretentious

   roots rock

Roots

1. (1976) A Pulitzer Prize –winning novel by the African-American author Alex Haley, later made into a popular television drama. It traces a black American man's heritage to Africa, where his ancestors had been captured and sold as slaves.

Other Word Forms

• rootsy adjective

Example Sentences

I am the roots in the ground, stretching up into one of the trees in the yard.

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“Beets! I curse them, roots and stems and all.”

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They always pulled it up by the roots.

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Given my roots, this made me feel uncomfortable.

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Here too, isotope analysis of his teeth solved the mystery, determining conclusively that his roots were not in England but in Italy.

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