roam [rohm] Show IPA Use roaming in a Sentence –verb (used without object) 1. to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world. –verb (used with object) 2. to wander over or through: to roam the countryside. –noun 3. an act or instance of roaming; a ramble. Origin: 1300–50; ME romen < ?
Related forms: roamer, noun
Synonyms: 1. stray, stroll, prowl. Roam, ramble, range, rove imply wandering about over (usually) a considerable amount of territory. Roam implies a wandering or traveling over a large area, esp. as prompted by restlessness or curiosity: to roam through a forest. Ramble implies pleasant, carefree moving about, walking with no specific purpose and for a limited distance: to ramble through fields near home. Range usually implies wandering over a more or less defined but extensive area in search of something: Cattle range over the plains. Rove sometimes implies wandering with specific incentive or aim, as an animal for prey: Bandits rove through these mountains.
I think if you fit any of these definitions and still go to Willamette, then you are qualified to continue writing on this blog. I personally am still roaming.
roam [rohm] Show IPA
ReplyDeleteUse roaming in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
–verb (used with object)
2. to wander over or through: to roam the countryside.
–noun
3. an act or instance of roaming; a ramble.
Origin:
1300–50; ME romen < ?
Related forms:
roamer, noun
Synonyms:
1. stray, stroll, prowl. Roam, ramble, range, rove imply wandering about over (usually) a considerable amount of territory. Roam implies a wandering or traveling over a large area, esp. as prompted by restlessness or curiosity: to roam through a forest. Ramble implies pleasant, carefree moving about, walking with no specific purpose and for a limited distance: to ramble through fields near home. Range usually implies wandering over a more or less defined but extensive area in search of something: Cattle range over the plains. Rove sometimes implies wandering with specific incentive or aim, as an animal for prey: Bandits rove through these mountains.
I think if you fit any of these definitions and still go to Willamette, then you are qualified to continue writing on this blog. I personally am still roaming.
Roaming? Beachcombing? Foaming?
ReplyDeleteI agree. But what about after we go to Willamette? I think I'd still consider myself a wuroamer.
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