What does "roam" mean?
Roam: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.To range or wander over. And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. Milton.
- 3.The act of roaming; a wandering; a ramble; as, he began his roam o'er hill amd dale. Milton.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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