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Roa

Roa proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Roa (countable and uncountable, plural Roas)

  1. A surname.
  2. A transliteration of the Arabic female given name رُؤَى (ruʔā).
  3. A village in Comoé district, Ivory Coast.
  4. The administrative centre of Lunner municipality, Akershus, Norway, previously in Viken.
  5. A small settlement in Grey district, West Coast, New Zealand, from the Māori language.

Noun capitalized: ROA

ROA (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Raman optical activity.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of register of actions.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of right of abode.

Forms of Roa

pluralRoas

Origin of Roa

(surname) From Spanish Roa.

Questions about Roa

What does Roa mean?
Roa means a surname.
What part of speech is Roa?
Roa can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Roa in the dictionary

  1. Ro-Henu
  2. ro-ro
  3. ro-ros
  4. ro.
  5. RO5
  6. Roa
  7. Roa Island
  8. roach
  9. roach bomb
  10. roach bombs
  11. roach clip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Roa (page history and authors); ROA (page history and authors). 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.

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