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Roam Common

Roam has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

"The gypsies roamed the woods"

"roving vagabonds"

"the wandering Jew"

"The cattle roam across the prairie"

"the laborers drift from one town to the next"

"They rolled from town to town"

2

To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.

"After work, I like to roam through the empty park until the streetlights turn on."

Example Sentences
"The gypsies roamed the woods" verb
"roving vagabonds" verb
"the wandering Jew" verb
"The cattle roam across the prairie" verb
"the laborers drift from one town to the next" verb
"They rolled from town to town" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
travel
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
maunder gallivant
Rhyming Words
goam foam noam loam sloam gloam cloam whoam afoam stroam defoam befoam seafoam geofoam jeroboam polyfoam rehoboam antifoam nanofoam macrofoam
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