vroom
/vɹuːm/US/vɹum/
vroom interjection: the sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.
Interjection
- The sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.
- I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.
Noun
vroom (plural vrooms)
- The sound of an engine revving up.
- Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.2003, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 2, page 52
Verb
vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)
- To move with great speed; to zoom.
Proper noun capitalized: Vroom
Vroom (plural Vrooms)
- A surname from Dutch.
vroom meaning in Thai
vroom in Thai
- the sound of a sports car’s engine
- บรื้น brʉ̂ʉn
Forms of vroom
| Interjection | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | broom |
| alternative form | brrm |
| alternative form | brrrm |
| Noun | |
| plural | vrooms |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | vrooms |
| present participle | vrooming |
| past participle | vroomed |
| past | vroomed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Vrooms |
Origin of vroom
Imitative.
Borrowed from Dutch Vroom.
Words that rhyme with vroom
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
Questions about vroom
- What does vroom mean?
- Vroom means the sound of an engine, especially when it is revving up.
- What is vroom in Thai?
- Vroom in Thai is บรื้น (brʉ̂ʉn). See Vroom meaning in Thai.
- What part of speech is vroom?
- Vroom can be an interjection, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce vroom?
- Vroom is pronounced /vɹuːm/ (UK).
Words near vroom in the dictionary
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