roam

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• Received-Pronunciation: rōm
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹəʊm/
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• General-American: rōm
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• General-American: /ɹoʊm/
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• homophone: Rome
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• rhymes with -əʊm
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: wandel — wander freely
• Arabic: تَجَوَّلَ (tajawwala) — wander freely
• Bulgarian: бро́дя (bródja) — wander freely
• Bulgarian: ски́там (skítam) — wander freely
• Catalan: vagar — wander freely
• Chinese Mandarin: 漫遊 /漫游 (mànyóu) — wander freely
• Chinese Mandarin: 漫步 (mànbù) — wander freely
• Dutch: rondwandelen — wander freely
• Dutch: wandelen — wander freely
• Dutch: rondlopen — wander freely
• Dutch: dwalen — wander freely
• Dutch: ronddwalen — wander freely
• Dutch: zwerven — wander freely
• Esperanto: migri — wander freely
• Finnish: vaellella — wander freely
• Finnish: kuljeskella — wander freely
• Finnish: harhailla — wander freely
• French: errer — wander freely
• German: wandern — wander freely
• German: umherziehen — wander freely
• Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌱𐍉𐌽 (ƕarbōn) — wander freely
• Ancient Greek: ῥέμβομαι (rhémbomai) — wander freely
• Hebrew: שוטט (shotét) — wander freely
• Hebrew: נדד (nadád) — wander freely
• Hindi: घूमना (ghūmnā) — wander freely
• Hungarian: barangol — wander freely
• Hungarian: kóborol — wander freely
• Hungarian: kószál — wander freely
• Ingrian: häylyä — wander freely
• Ingrian: häylää — wander freely
• Italian: vagare — wander freely
• Italian: girovagare — wander freely
• Japanese: 歩き回る (arukimawaru) — wander freely
• Japanese: うろつく (urotsuku) — wander freely
• Japanese: さ迷う (samayou) — wander freely
• Kazakh: кезу (kezu) — wander freely
• Korean: 돌아다니다 (doradanida) — wander freely
• Latin: vagor — wander freely
• Latin: pālor — wander freely
• Māori: takawhaki — wander freely
• Māori: tahawhenua — wander freely
• Māori: kōkewa — wander freely
• Māori: tipiwhenua — wander freely
• Khiamniungan Naga: làikēi — wander freely
• Nepali: डुल्नु (ḍulnu) — wander freely
• Norwegian Bokmål: virre rundt — wander freely
• Persian: ول گشتن (vel gaštan) — wander freely
• Persian: پرسه زدن (porse zadan) — wander freely
• Portuguese: vagar — wander freely
• Portuguese: vaguear — wander freely
• Romanian: hoinări — wander freely
• Russian: броди́ть (brodítʹ) — wander freely
• Russian: скита́ться (skitátʹsja) — wander freely
• Russian: стра́нствовать (stránstvovatʹ) — wander freely
• Spanish: vagar — wander freely
• Spanish: yirar — wander freely
• Spanish: deambular — wander freely
• Spanish: callejear — wander freely
• Spanish: ruar — wander freely
• Spanish: veletear — wander freely
• Spanish: tunar — wander freely
• Spanish: cancanear — wander freely
• Tamil: அலை (alai) — wander freely
• Tamil: திரி (tiri) — wander freely
• Tamil: சுற்று (cuṟṟu) — wander freely
• Thai: ท่องเที่ยว (tɔ̂ng-tîao) — wander freely
• Turkish: dolanmak — wander freely
• Turkish: dolaşmak — wander freely
• Turkish: gezinmek — wander freely
• Ukrainian: блука́ти (blukáty) — wander freely
• Vietnamese: lang thang — wander freely
• Khiamniungan Naga: ūo — wander freely in groups
• Chinese Mandarin: 漫遊 /漫游 (mànyóu) — (Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices
• Finnish: vierailla — (Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices
• Hungarian: barangol — (Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices
• Māori: tīpakopako — (Computing) To use a network or services from different locations or devices