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Definition of roam :
1. The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.
2. To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
3. To range or wander over.
Synonyms:
graze, roll up, couch, cuckold, mold, pad, puke, cast off, spew, roll, meander, divagate, chuck, move, throw away, barf, go astray, rate, vagabond, browse, contrive, avow, ramble on, sick, drop, hurtle, seethe, regorge, frame, hustle, blow, roll out, disgorge, freewheel, shed, digress, jog, assert, slog, regurgitate, be sick, float, throw, pluck, swear, revolve, cheat, wrap, set out, swan, affirm, redact, tramp, spue, undulate, vomit up, range, stray, run, draw, weave, pasture, flap, diverge, straddle, project, order, throw off, betray, trudge, err, cat, turn over, honk, wind, thread, cheat on, place, wave, retch, grade, veer, footslog, verify, swerve, twine, vomit, shake off, array, deviate, hurl, throw up, crop, purge, be adrift, put, rank, plod, aver, cast, lay out, upchuck, wheel, mould
travel (part of speech: verb)
wander (part of speech: verb)
knock around, saunter, gallivant, trek, jaunt, prowl, course, sojourn, gad, wander, amble, promenade, cycle, drive, trip, tour, march, walk, rove, stroll, peregrinate, struggle along, ramble, bat around, journey, hike, traipse, travel, straggle, scour, traverse
Usage examples:
- And left their little girl at home, While they to distant village roam; And thus saved their lives from slaughter, But rebels carried off their daughter. - "Poems of James McIntyre", James McIntyre.
- What really distinguishes the American from all others- for all peoples like more or less to roam, and the English of all others are globe- trotters- is not so much his restlessness as his entire accord with the spirit of " go- ahead," the result of his absolute breaking with the Past. - "The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner", Charles Dudley Warner.
- I will roam about with her, and see the world, and they will all be kind to you here; so let us change clothes. - "The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories", Lydia Maria Child.