roam
UK/ɹəʊm//ɹoʊm/
roam verb: to wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
Verb
roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28 - Oh, never will I roam / Now I know my place is home / Where the ocean meets the sky / I'll be sailin'1986, Marc Jordan, John Capek, “Rhythm of My Heart”, in Vagabond Heart, performed by Rod Stewart, published 1991
- Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
- To range or wander over.
- Gangs of thugs roamed the streets.
- And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam.1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
- 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.2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
Noun
roam (plural 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.2017, Rick Maloy, Evenings and Mournings
roam meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
roam in Hindi
- wander freely
- घूमना ghūmnā
roam in Tamil
- wander freely
- அலை alai, திரி tiri, சுற்று cuṟṟu
roam in Urdu
- چکر لگانا, گھومنا, پھرنا
roam in Bengali
- ঘুরে বেড়ানো, বিচরণ করা
More languagesFewer languages
- roam in Telugu
- మసలు masalu
- roam in Malayalam
- അലയുക
- roam in Kannada
- ಮೆರೆ, ಎಡೆಯಾಡು, ತಿರಿ, ತೊಳಲ್
- roam in Punjabi
- ਘੁੰਮਣਾ
- roam in Sanskrit
- अट् aṭ, द्रम् dram, गाह् gāh, गाहते gā́hate
- roam in Nepali
- डुल्नु ḍulnu
- roam in Arabic
- تَجَوَّلَ tajawwala
- roam in Persian
- ول گشتن vel gaštan, پرسه زدن porse zadan
- roam in Thai
- ท่องเที่ยว tɔ̂ng-tîao
- roam in Vietnamese
- lang thang
Examples of roam in a sentence
- A roaming profile allows your settings to follow you from one computer to another across a network.
- Despite what some cartoons portray, no humans were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
Synonyms of roam
Forms of roam
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | roams |
| present participle | roaming |
| past participle | roamed |
| past | roamed |
| Noun | |
| plural | roams |
Origin of roam
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.
Words formed from roam
Words that rhyme with roam
Questions about roam
- What does roam mean?
- Roam means to wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
- What is roam in Hindi?
- Roam in Hindi is घूमना (ghūmnā). See Roam meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is roam?
- Roam can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce roam?
- Roam is pronounced /ɹəʊm/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of roam?
- The past tense of roam is roamed.
Words near roam in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roam (page history and authors); roam (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roam (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మసలు (Telugu) (page history and authors); roam (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roam (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roam (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अट् (Sanskrit) (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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