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

This time, McVay said that his wife, Veronika, who has roots in the region, and son, Jordan, would make the trip to Baltimore.

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Mr. Ferrer’s roots in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, the birthplace of the island’s most successful revolutions, also made him dangerous.

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These elites were the East Coast merchants who had prospered from the prewar Atlantic commercial boom that helped plant capitalism’s roots in North America.

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He also stayed close to his local roots.

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A review in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggests that the often-discarded tops of radishes could be more nutritious than the roots themselves.

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