英语词汇“primrose path”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

primrose path

释义

primrose /primˈrōz/

noun

A plant (Primula vulgaris) or its pale yellow flower, common in spring in woods and meadows
Extended to other plants of the genus Primula
Formerly used for some other (and brighter) flower, also the daisy and (US) a kind of wild rose
A conventionalized flower, sometimes four-petalled (heraldry)
The pale yellow colour of a primrose
The choicest (Spenser)

adjective

Pale yellow, like a primrose

intransitive verb

To gather primroses

ORIGIN: OFr primerose, as if from L prīma rosa; perhaps really through ME and OFr primerole, from LL prīmula, from prīmus first

primˈrosed adjective

primˈrosy adjective

Primrose League noun

An association for Conservative propaganda formed in 1883 in memory of Lord Beaconsfield, named from his supposed favourite flower

primrose path or primrose way noun (from Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth)

The life of pleasure

primrose peerless noun

The two-flowered daffodil

evening primrose see evening under even²

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