roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
(verb) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)
(intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
(intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
(transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
(transitive) To range or wander over.
• (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander
• Amor, Mora, Omar, Roma, moar, mora, roma
Source: Wiktionary
Roam, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Roaming.] Etym: [OE. romen, ramen; cf. AS. ar to raise, rise, D. ramen to hit, plan, aim, OS. r to strive after, OHG. ramen. But the word was probably influenced by Rome; cf. OF. romier a pilgrim, originally, a pilgrim going to Rome, It. romeo, Sp. romero. Cf. Ramble.]
Definition: To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak.
Syn.
– To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble.
Roam, v. t.
Definition: To range or wander over. And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. Milton.
Roam, n.
Definition: The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
