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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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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Bible Romans
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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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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
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
Leeor Maciborski, owner of ROM Residential, which currently owns Castelvecchi’s building, purchased that building after another investor built it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Nintendo has a history of aggressively pursuing unauthorized use of its intellectual property, and the company has regularly gone after ROM sites that host game files.
From The Verge ● Dec. 8, 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
Graec. et Rom. ch. v.; histories of ancient philosophy, and specially Ed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
It also seems to me that that difficult passage in the Bible, Rom. viii. 21-24, must be interpreted in this sense.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
And, further, it would be a plain denial of Rom. iv.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
He makes this admission casually in the course of some remarks which afford a fair sample of his critical method and therefore deserve attention:—He infers from Rom. xiii.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
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
My information on the subject is derived from a pamphlet of 79 pages by Hermann Usener, printed at Bonn in 1877, and bearing the title 'Anecdoton Holderi: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Roms in Ostgothischer Zeit.'
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
Nay, that I doubt not," he said, "but here we are all good fellows, right Roms, true to each other, and would rob no honest comrade of that for which he hath risked his life.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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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