Rom
noun
an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.
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ROMnouncomputer 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.abbreviationroman (printing type).
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Rom.abbreviationRoman.
Rom
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[rohm]
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Romance. Also Rom
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Romania.
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Romanian. Also Rom
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Romanic. Also Rom
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Bible. Romans (New Testament).
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/ rŏm /
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See gypsy.
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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
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Rom was finally able to return to Phnom Penh, where AFP was able to speak to him in April.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Some who were killed or captured were working at the festival as security guards and ushers, including Eitan Mor, 25, Bar Kupershtein, 23, and Rom Braslavski, 21, who are among those still being held.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
The footage of Evyatar was released after Palestinian Islamic Jihad published video of another hostage, Rom Braslavski, thin and crying.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
So I said to Rom, “Come on, have a quick go at this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
And which totally sucked because it meant he would read the rest of the comic during school, and have something lame like Rom out on the way home.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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
The real doctrine of Rom. vi. is but little apprehended.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
Let Rom. xi. be studied in connection with this.
From The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined by David Baron
How will that, Rom. xiii. read of tyrants?
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
And that for to prevent and remeid this, the apostle 'beseeches us to mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which we have learned, and avoid them,' Rom. xvi.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
Osee, and so the English version in Rom. ix.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Photograph: FEndi Women’s leggings, coffee pods, microwave rice and computer game downloads have all been added to the ‘basket of goods’ used to measure UK inflation, while CD Roms and nightclub fees are out.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016
An’ when len sān sār jālled lúg, the Rommany chāls welled adoi an’ latched adusta bitti barrels o’ tatto-pánni, an’ fino covvas, for dovo mushis were ’mugglers, and the Roms lelled sar they mukked pāli.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
The various conjectures on the origin of the name Sulla are given by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, ii. p.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
The history of this affair of Vettius is given by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, ii.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
That there are Roms in the land of Mizr his eyes have shown, but whether any of them can talk Rommany is to him as yet unknown.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
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