Rom
noun
an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.
Roms
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pluralof Rom.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
And Rom was the general slang of the road, and it came from the Roms or Trablūs.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
