Local English word record

roam

verb · 1 sense

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

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Examples

  • 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

Word relationships

Synonyms

roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

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This page uses the locally materialized K5English vocabulary cohort. WordNet, where present, is enrichment only and does not determine K-5 admission.

Princeton WordNet 3.0