roam
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roam
- /ɹəʊm/ UK
- /ɹoʊm/ US
Sounds like Rome · Rhymes with -əʊm
Where it comes from
From Middle English romen, from Old English rāmian, from Proto-Germanic *raimōną (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h₃reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ārǣman (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German rāmēn (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
verb roams · roaming · roamed
- To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, My blessing, like a line of light, Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home.
- To range or wander over. Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.
- To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
- To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.
noun roams
- The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination Glass in hand, he set off on a roam of the first floor.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: wander, vagabond, stray, ramble, cast, drift, rove, range, swan, spatiate, gad, peregrinate, move, displace, travel, err
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verb (Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices
| 中文 | 漫遊 /漫游 mànyóu |
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verb wander freely
| Español | vagar, yirar, deambular, callejear, ruar, veletear |
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| 한국어 | 돌아다니다 doradanida |
| 日本語 | 歩き回る arukimawaru, うろつく urotsuku, さ迷う samayou |
| 中文 | 漫遊 /漫游 mànyóu, 漫步 mànbù |
| हिन्दी | घूमना ghūmnā |
| Português | vagar, vaguear |
| Français | errer |
| Deutsch | wandern, umherziehen |
| Italiano | vagare, girovagare |
| Română | hoinări |
| Русский | броди́ть brodítʹ, скита́ться skitátʹsja, стра́нствовать stránstvovatʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | lang thang |
| العربية | تَجَوَّلَ tajawwala |
| עברית | שוטט shotét, נדד nadád |
Talk about this word "roam." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/roam. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. roam. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/roam "roam." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/roam.Cite this
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title = {roam},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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