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roomba

Syllables: Room·baUK/ˈɹuːm.bə/US/ˈɹum.bə/

roomba noun: a robotic vacuum cleaner.

Noun (1)

roomba (plural roombas)

  1. (uncommon, genericized trademark) A robotic vacuum cleaner.
    • But a roomba is really an independent actor and we already see problems with it (roomba companies collecting apartment layout data, pets feeling strong competition, people feeling rather helpless if a roomba doesn't clean some place or gets itself constantly stuck on rugs etc). Sure they are not...2019 November 2, rehasu, “Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient”, in Hacker News, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025
    • That's so cute... I feel like roomba companies should start implementing cute AIs in the robots that bark or so cute stuff, their sales would skyrocket2019 December 3, @Velinxi, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025

Noun (2) capitalized: Roomba

Roomba (plural Roombas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of roomba.

Examples of roomba in a sentence

  • Sure they are not big problems, but roombas aren't really big independent actors either.2019 November 2, rehasu, “Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient”, in Hacker News, archived from the...
  • Roomba companies after inventing Chloe: It's real free estate2021 December 15, u/Acrzyguy, “New cleaner on the job”, in Reddit, r/Hololive, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025:
  • I have an offbrand roomba too, you don't need to actually have the roomba brand in this case; the off brands work just as well sometimes better2023 August 8, @hollowearthterf, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025:
  • i used to have an actual roomba - okay no, not a roomba brand roomba but one of those things. and now im just imagining making it and still using it as my regular floor cleaning robot2024 April 13, @radbeetle, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025:

Forms of roomba

pluralroombas
alternative formRoomba
pluralRoombas

Origin of roomba

Genericized trademark owned by iRobot Corporation. Possibly a blend of room + rumba.

Words that rhyme with roomba

Questions about roomba

What does roomba mean?
Roomba means a robotic vacuum cleaner.
How do you use roomba in a sentence?
Sure they are not big problems, but roombas aren't really big independent actors either.
What part of speech is roomba?
Roomba is a noun.
How do you pronounce roomba?
Roomba is pronounced /ˈɹuːm.bə/ (UK).
What is the plural of roomba?
The plural of roomba is roombas.

Words near roomba in the dictionary

  1. roomal
  2. roomals
  3. roomate
  4. roomaul
  5. roomauls
  6. roomba
  7. roombas
  8. roome
  9. roomed
  10. roomed in
  11. roomer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: roomba (page history and authors); Roomba (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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