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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROAM, v.i. [If m is radical, this word seems to be connected with ramble, L. ramus.]
To wander; to ramble; to rove; to walk or move about from place to place without any certain purpose or direction. The wolf and the savage roam in the forest.
Daphne roaming through a thorny wood.
ROAM, v.t. To range; to wander over; as, to roam the woods; but the phrase is elliptical.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English romen Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to go from place to place without purpose or direction ; wander 2. to travel purposefully unhindered through a wide area <cattle roaming in search of water> 3. to use a cellular phone outside one's local calling area <roaming charges> transitive verb to range or wander over Synonyms: see wander • roam noun • roamer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. ramble, wander. 2 tr. travel unsystematically over, through, or about. --n. an act of roaming; a ramble. Derivatives: roamer n. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Roam Roam, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Roaming.] [OE. romen, ramen; cf. AS. [=a]r?man to raise, rise, D. ramen to hit, plan, aim, OS. r?m?n to strive after, OHG. r[=a]men. 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. --Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. --Shak. Syn: To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(roams, roaming, roamed) If you roam an area or roam around it, you wander or travel around it without having a particular purpose. Barefoot children roamed the streets... They're roaming around the country shooting at anything that moves... Farmers were encouraged to keep their livestock in pens rather than letting them roam freely. VERB: V n, V prep/adv, V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Ramble, stroll, wander, range, rove, stray, straggle. II. v. a. Wander or range over, stray about.

Moby Thesaurus

amble, bat, bat around, bum, circumambulate, count ties, cruise, dally, dawdle, divagate, drift, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go the rounds, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, meander, mooch, mosey, nomadize, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, prowl, ramble, range, rove, run about, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, swan, traipse, tramp, travel, vagabond, vagabondize, voyage, walk, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare