roam

[roam]

When you wander without a plan or a specific destination, you roam. Your cat may stay close to your house when you let her outside, or she may roam around the neighborhood all day.

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To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

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 ro


v. i.
To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

v. t.
To range or wander over.

n.
The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.


Roam

Roam , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roamed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Roaming.] [OE. romen, ramen; cf. AS. 'berman to raise, rise, D. ramen to hit, plan, aim, OS. rmn to strive after, OHG. r'bemen. 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.] To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
He roameth to the carpenter's house.
Daphne roaming through a thorny wood.
Syn. -- To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble.

Roam

Roam, v. t. To range or wander over.
And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam.

Roam

Roam, n. The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.

To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.

To range or wander over.

The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale.

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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

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