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Rom

[rohm] / roʊm /
NOUN
a Romani person
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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

So I said to Rom, “Come on, have a quick go at this.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2024

Rom praises Vance's debating skills, and believes he's the future of his party.

From BBC Jul. 16, 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

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

I myself, while living among the Roms of England, have been regarded almost in the light of a cannibal for cooking the latter animal and preferring it to hotchiwitchu barbecued, or ragout of boror.

From The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow

And Rom was the general slang of the road, and it came from the Roms or Trablūs. 

From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

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




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