Definition of Take root

1. Verb. Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style. "He finally settled down"

Exact synonyms: Root, Settle, Settle Down, Steady Down
Generic synonyms: Stabilise, Stabilize
Specialized synonyms: Roost

Definition of Take root

1. Verb. (intransitive literally) To grow roots into soil. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive figuratively) To become established, to take hold. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Root

take or pay
take orders
take out
take out of context
take out the stops
take out the trash
take over
take pains
take part
take place
take point
take pride
take refuge
take responsibility
take revenge
take root (current term)
take shape
take sick
take sides
take sign
take silk
take sitting down
take somebody's word for it
take someone's head off
take someone's point
take something as read
take something in one's stride
take something in stride
take something to the grave
take stage

Literary usage of Take root

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"To be in vogue is a matter of luck, yet it can be encouraged by skill, for art can best take root on a soil favoured by nature. There goodwill grows and ..."

2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1825)
"For never will French vanity allow a privileged class of nobles to take root in public opinion, and exact, as a matter of hereditary right, the deference ..."

3. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"... could a cereal so difficult to cultivate manage to take root in so many countries and become the chief article of food for hundreds of millions of men? ..."

4. The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and by William Jay (1833)
"If it should not take root in this soil, little pains will be taken to cultivate it in any other. I have the honour to be, with great respect, Dear sir, ..."

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