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• Rom
  Rom

  noun

  an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.
• ROM
  ROM

  noun

  computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.
• rom.
  rom.

  abbreviation

  roman (printing type).
• Rom.
  Rom.

  abbreviation

  Roman.

Rom

¹ American  

[rohm] / roʊm /

noun

Roms, plural Rom plural

1. an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.

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ROM ² American  

[rom] / rɒm /

noun

1. computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.

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rom. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. roman (printing type).

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Rom. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Roman.

2. Romance. Also Rom

3. Romania.

4. Romanian. Also Rom

5. Romanic. Also Rom

6. Bible. Romans (New Testament).

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Rom. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Roman

2. Romance (languages)

3. Bible Romans

4. Romania(n)

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rom. ² British  

abbreviation

1. roman (type)

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ROM ³ British  

/ rɒm /

acronym

1. read only memory: a storage device that holds data permanently and cannot in normal circumstances be altered by the programmer

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Rom ⁴ British  

/ rɒm /

noun

1. a male Gypsy

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ROM Scientific  

/ rŏm /

1. Short for read-only memory. Computer hardware that stores programs or data that cannot be added to, modified, or deleted. ROM does not require power to maintain its contents, and is often used to save instructions that enable the computer's operating system to communicate with other hardware.

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ROM Cultural  

1. Acronym for r ead o nly m emory, which refers to a memory system, such as a commercial CD, which can be read but which cannot be altered. (Compare RAM.)

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Sensitive Note

See gypsy.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Rom
  plural
• Roms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Rom¹

First recorded in 1835–45; from Romani: “man, married man”; compare Sanskrit ḍomba, ḍoma “a low-caste minstrel,” probably from a Dravidian language; compare Kannada ḍomba, ḍoma, Tamil dommara “caste of jugglers”

Origin of ROM²

r(ead)-o(nly) m(emory)

Example Sentences

Forni co-curated a companion show at the ROM that opened in 2016, featuring flags from that museum’s collection, organized with former Fowler director Doran H. Ross.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Jim Pace was the owner and CEO of ROM Corporation, a manufacturing company that makes roll-up doors.

From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2019

Based on our calculations there was no way it could all fit on a ROM cartridge.

From The Verge • Jan. 9, 2017

The ROM continues to work in the Marble Canyon area and some of their discoveries are described and illustrated on this website: https://www.rom.on.ca/ en/blog/mighty-burgess-shale-fossil-site-discovered-in-kootenay-national-park.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

There were also a few ROM cartridges, which fit into a slot on the side of the computer.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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