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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Roms,
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[rom]
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Roman.
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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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Romania(n)
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/ rŏm /
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Cultural
Sensitive Note
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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For the first two months at the Matsapha Correctional Centre, Rom said he and fellow deportees "went through misery" -- allowed outdoors for only 15 minutes a day and given one weekly phone call.
From Barron's ● Apr. 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
They included Ofir Braslavski, the father of Rom Braslavski, 21, who was seen emaciated and injured in a video sent by his Islamic Jihad captors in early August.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
“It’s not like you can download a ROM of a Game Boy game and play it: once it’s gone, it’s gone.”
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 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
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
Of course, in the Epistles the expression is of frequent occurrence, as for instance, Rom. i.
From The Gospel According To Peter by Walter R. Cassels
See Eph. i, 5; ii, 10; Rom. viii, 29.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
Certainly passages were recorded for our learning, Rom. xv.
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
Tertullian, who makes no reference to these two chapters, speaks of the passage, Rom. xiv.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
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
Plutarch makes the visit to Asia precede Cato's quæstorship, upon which see the remarks of Drumann, Geschichte Roms, v.
From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 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
I myself, while living among the Roms of England, have been regarded almost in the light of a cannibal for cooking the latter animal and preferring it to hotchiwitchu barbecued, or ragout of boror.
From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow
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
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