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roam English

Meaning roam meaning

What does roam mean?

roam

— verb (= roll, wander, rove, drift, vagabond) 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

Synonyms roam synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as roam?

roam English » English

wander rove ramble stray drift travel stroll tramp wander about walk range move around journey swan survive live tour peregrinate nomadic meander loiter homeless hang around gad wandering voyage vagrant vagabond traverse traipse soar roll nomad move about go about gallivant fly fare digress cast wanderlust wander over walk around walk all around twist trek stroll around straggle start off squander

Topics roam topics

What do people use roam to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Wander

Conjugation roam conjugation

How do you conjugate roam?

roam · verb

Examples roam examples

How do I use roam in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I like to roam about the fields.
Four horses roam the pasture.
My cat likes to roam at night.

Movie subtitles

We'll take you on a journey to faraway planets, where amazing creatures may roam the lands.
Tell me, do you really believe there are vampires who come out of their tombs and roam about looking for blood?
At night, they leave their graves and roam abroad like wolves seeking their prey.
In the meantime, I don't think you'll roam the park at nights.
I don't suppose you allow the dogs to roam at large?
You've allowed a psychopathic case to roam around with an overgrown white rabbit!
Don't you know that there are evil spirits without bodies. roam the forest looking for unsuspecting dogs like you?
Human elements still roam planet Earth!
The sea is everything -- an immense reservoir of nature, where I roam at will.
Does Adam know that you roam around over here at night?
I've been thinking it's not safe for you to roam Chicago looking for this George Kaplan you've been telling me about.
Me and Bert used to roam all over these hills when we were kids.
At my age one needs but little sleep, so I often roam the Tower in the dark hours.
All this while they roam the floor, the earth swallow them up remain there forever, to ridicule their existence.
You've let a psychopathic case walk out and roam around with a white rabbit! You've laid me open to a lawsuit!
In Nagasaki So long, Oo-long How long you gonna roam?
In Nagasaki So long, Oo-long How long you going to roam?
So if that little eye is gonna roam.
The sea is everything, an immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.
Who allowed you to roam the world, confusing with your fantasies simple- minded people and making the judicious ones laugh?
You mean they let you roam around?
Therefore, in my work, I hardly dare to roam about without one spare.
Don't roam about, you lecher!
Who would like to roam.
You know, I've been thinking, it's not safe for you to roam around Chicago looking for this George Kaplan man you've been telling me about.
You've let a psychopathic case walk out and roam around with a white rabbit!
I prefer to roam the roads.
Go over there sometime and try to imagine what it was like 40,000 years ago, when monsters like these wandered around, where now expensive cars roam.
The 'ole ruddy city o' London to roam around in selling' 'er bloomin' flow'rs. I give 'er all that.
Men roam the city.
Not until they roam can they miss their home?
We let that thing roam free, and our reputation as Japanese apparitions will be tarnished.
You can't let it roam down there alone!
You can't roam about wherever you want to.
One of the thirty murderers that roam free in this city.
The party has a lot of odd jobs to be attended to. If you remain like this and roam in the sun then both your mind and your health will be undermined.

News and current affairs

Poverty runs rampant, orphanages overflow with abandoned children, countless packs of wild dogs roam the streets.
In the heart of Islamabad, vigilante groups from a government-funded mosque, the Lal Masjid, roam the streets and bazaars imposing Islamic morality and terrorizing citizens in full view of the police.
Its female professors and students roam in objectionable dresses.
In the evenings, they roam in packs through the city's streets and bazaars, gaping at store windows and lustfully ogling bare-faced women.
In medieval Spain, Quixote-like knights probably did roam the countryside, ridding it not of dragons but of the land's few remaining Muslims.
And, at a press conference, he said that women should not roam around without male escorts.

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