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# roam

«roam» in Mova's school dictionary: **To walk or travel around with no fixed plan, often over a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (roam, roams, roamed, roaming); noun (a roam — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To walk or travel around with no fixed plan, often over a wide area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#m1)

2) (phones) To use a mobile phone abroad through another network («roaming»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#m2)

3) (of eyes or thoughts) To move from place to place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography: buffalo roam the plains; wild horses roam in Australia. In stories, children roam the woods. With phones, «roaming charges» can cost a lot abroad. Phrases: «free to roam», «roam the streets», «roaming charges».

### examples

- Wild ponies roam across the moor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x1)
- We roamed the beach looking for shells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x2)
- The dog was free to roam the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x3)
- Turn off data roaming when you go abroad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x4)
- Her eyes roamed around the busy room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x5)
- Dinosaurs once roamed the Earth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x6)
- A LION, roaming through a forest, trod upon a thorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Do not confuse with «Rome» (city) — same sound. Safety: children should not roam far without telling an adult.

### In the corpora

- [Wherefore say My people: 'We roam at large; we will come no more unto Thee'?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.58/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roam» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roam/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.