Usually means: Wander or travel without purpose.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word roam:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. roam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roam: Merriam-Webster
  3. roam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roam, roam: Wordnik
  8. roam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roam: Wiktionary
  10. roam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roam: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Roam, roam: Dictionary.com
  14. roam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. roam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. ROAM, Roam (band), Roam (disambiguation), Roam (public transit), Roam (song), Roam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Roam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. roam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. roam: Rhymezone
  20. roam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. roam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. roam: FreeDictionary.org
  23. roam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. roam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. roam: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roam: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROAM: Acronym Finder
  2. roam: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roam: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See roamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
verb:  (transitive) To range or wander over.
verb:  (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
verb:  (transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
noun:  The act of roaming; a wander; a travel without aim or destination

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