Word.ws English Dictionary

bose

UK/bəʊs//boʊs/

bose verb: to strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.

Verb

bose (third-person singular simple present boses, present participle bosing, simple past and past participle bosed)

  1. (usually) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
    • This criticism applies also to bosing in which the ground is thumped with a heavy rammer; over filled-in pits, tombs, […] Bosing is successful where the top-soil is thin and firm, with an unstratified rock such as chalk beneath.1974, Martin Jim Aitken, Physics and archaeology

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bose

UK/bəʊz/India/boːs/

Bose

  1. A surname from Bengali.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bose

Bose

  1. Synonym of Baise.
    • Carry her on your back as far as Bose, / Fleeing there will take seven days on the road.2022, David Holm, Meng Yuanyao, editors, The Brigands' Song: Serving in the Army of A Native Chieftain, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 101
    Synonyms:
    Baise

bose meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

bose in Urdu

بوس

bose in Bengali

বোসের কাছে

bose in Telugu

బోస్

bose in Kannada

ಬೋಸ್ಗೆ, ಬೋಸ್
More languagesFewer languages
bose in Odia
ବୋସ୍

Synonyms of bose

Forms of bose

third-person singular presentboses
present participlebosing
past participlebosed
pastbosed

Origin of bose

Borrowed from colloquial Bengali বোস (bōs).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 百色 (Bósè).

Words formed from bose

Words that rhyme with bose

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bose

What does bose mean?
Bose means to strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
What is bose in Urdu?
Bose in Urdu is بوس. See Bose meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is bose?
Bose can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bose?
Bose is pronounced /bəʊs/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bose?
The past tense of bose is bosed.

Words near bose in the dictionary

  1. Boscombe
  2. Boscos
  3. Boscovich
  4. Boscovichian
  5. Boscs
  6. bose
  7. Bose-Einstein condensate
  8. Bose-Einstein condensates
  9. Bose-Einstein statistics
  10. boselaphine
  11. boselaphines

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bose (page history and authors); Bose (page history and authors); bose (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bose (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bose (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bose (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bose (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Paul2520-Bose.wav.

Cite this entry: “bose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.