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Roma
1[ roh-mah ]
noun
Unfortunately, the Roma continue to face discrimination and are subjected to profiling by law enforcement.
adjective
Roma
2[ raw-mah ]
noun
- Italian name of Rome.
Roma
2/ ˈroːma /
noun
- the Italian name for Rome
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Roma1
Example Sentences
“This is a moral, necessary and long-overdue change,” says Margareta Matache, a Roma rights activist and scholar at Harvard University.
It’s a “small yet historic” step to rectify portrayals where “Roma have been denied humanity or depicted as less than human,” she says.
Czech Republic’s Magdalena KarvayovaAs shocking as it is in 2021, many Roma children in schools across Europe attend segregated schools, where they receive a subpar education.
Not only that, some countries place Roma students in remedial classes for pupils with disabilities.
After Schnaas arrived at a large stone house in the Mexico City neighborhood of Roma, a domestic worker ushered her into a room whose function seemed to fall somewhere between library, movie theater and lounge.
Is the silence about the plight of the Roma in Europe surprising?
There was another group targeted by Hitler for extermination—the Roma.
The 200 other Roma, known pejoratively as “gypsies,” had fled the camp by Monday, police told French media.
“People want to take a piece of history to remember the city,” an Aeroporto di Roma spokesperson told The Daily Beast.
Others, like the prominent Roma activist Valeriu Nicholae, speak of its “rapid dissolution.”
His work Dello stato fisico del suolo di Roma , with its accompanying map, is likewise noteworthy.
There, behind her, is the mint-mark and that word of ancient power and glory, "Roma."
And now had come a fateful moment in the history of Roma terna.
A small boy in livery, whose cap wore the inscription 'Caffè di Roma,' came into the place, looking about for someone.
De coffee pot done het up de ice water and de ice water done took the 'roma from de coffee.
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