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  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 /

noun

1. a male Gypsy

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ROM ⁴ 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 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

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Rom ROM Rom. Roms

Now living in Phnom Penh after the Cambodian government facilitated his repatriation from Eswatini, Rom said he was still "getting used to the freedom" but was ready to move on.

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

Rom Braslabski, 21, was working on security for the festival.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

While at ROM she co-curated a multiplatform project, “Of Africa,” from 2013 to 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

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

And in another Place the same Apostle assures us, Rom. vi.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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 is but the minister of God for their good, Rom. xiii.

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

It is objected by some, from Rom. xiii.

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

He was baptized in the parish church of All Hallows, Lombard Street, London on April 1, 1577, by the Rev. John Fox, who preached a sermon on that occasion on Rom. xi. in Latin.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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

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

The circumstances of the death of Cæsar are minutely stated by Drumann, Geschichte Roms, Julii, p.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Aubrey Stewart

Related Words

• Romanichal
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