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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ROAMING, ppr. Wandering; roving.
ROAMING, n. The act of wandering.

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Roaming refers to the service provided by a mobile phone company which makes it possible for you to use your mobile phone when you travel abroad. International Roaming is your digital mobile phone's passport to travel but the cost of calls is high.

Moby Thesaurus

Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bumming, circumforaneous, discursion, discursive, divagation, divagatory, drifting, errant, errantry, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, landloping, meandering, migrational, migratory, nomad, nomadic, nomadism, peregrination, pererration, ramble, rambling, ranging, roam, rove, roving, shifting, straggling, straying, strolling, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, vagrant, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring