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roemer

roemer is the alternative form of rummer.

Meaning of rummer

Noun

rummer (plural rummers)

  1. A large drinking-glass for alcoholic drinks, chiefly wine, typically with a short or heavy stem.
    • I won, and regaled myself with cold roast beef and rummers of punch.1793, James Boswell, “Journals 1789–1795”, in Danziger, Brady, editors, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 241

Proper noun capitalized: Roemer

Roemer (plural Roemers)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of roemer

Noun
pluralroemers
Proper noun
pluralRoemers

Origin of roemer

Borrowed from German Römer.

Questions about roemer

What does roemer mean?
Roemer means a surname from German.
What is roemer the alternative form of?
Roemer is the alternative form of rummer.
What part of speech is roemer?
Roemer is a proper noun.

Words near roemer in the dictionary

  1. Roel
  2. roelike
  3. Roell
  4. Roells
  5. Roels
  6. roemer
  7. roemerine
  8. roemerite
  9. roemers
  10. Roemheld syndrome
  11. roemrefidine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roemer (page history and authors); Roemer (page history and authors); rummer (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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