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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Cultural
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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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But Rom and his lawyer Tin Thanh Nguyen both expressed doubts the agency even tried to deport him directly to Cambodia, the only country where he has citizenship.
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
Braslavski's family in a statement said "they managed to break Rom" and pleaded to Israeli and US leaders to bring their son home.
From BBC ● Aug. 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
An anonymous source sent her the game’s ROM file after viewing the first part of her documentary.
From The Verge ● Sep. 16, 2021
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
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
On Aug. 29 the King visited the Library on his way to Woodstock, and, asking for Fulke's Annotations on the Rhemish New Test., pointed out the remarks at Rom. x.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
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
In the new testament, the magistrate's power is described, Rom. xiii. to be that of the sword by punishment; the power of the church only in binding and loosing, Matth. xvi, 19.
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
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
And Rom was the general slang of the road, and it came from the Roms or Trablūs.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
The history of this affair of Vettius is given by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, ii.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
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
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