{
    "term": "roam",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "roam",
            "heSheIt": "roams"
        },
        "pastSimple": "roamed",
        "pastParticiple": "roamed",
        "ingForm": "roaming"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to walk or travel around an area without any definite aim or direction",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.roam something",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sheep are allowed to roam freely on this land.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ramblers are calling for the **right to roam ***(= the freedom to walk in open countryside)* to be extended."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to roam the countryside/the streets",
                    "contextForm": "roam something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He'd roamed aimlessly for a few hours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The animals were allowed to roam free."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're roaming around the countryside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wild camels roam across the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "roaming through the town"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the wild dog's instinct to roam widely"
                },
                {
                    "text": "when dinosaurs roamed the earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A number of mammal species roamed widely around the northern hemisphere."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Animals roam freely around the village."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gangs of barefoot children roam the city streets, begging for scraps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd like to be a photographer and roam the world with my camera."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Hobbies"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["free", "freely", "widely"],
                "verb + roam": [
                    "allow somebody/​something to",
                    "let somebody/​something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["about", "around", "across"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the freedom to roam",
                    "the right to roam",
                    "roam the earth"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to move slowly over every part of somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "roam over something/somebodyroam something/somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His gaze roamed over her.",
                    "contextForm": "roam over something/somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her eyes roamed over him, assessing him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her eyes roamed the room.",
                    "contextForm": "roam something/somebody"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["free", "freely", "widely"],
                "verb + roam": [
                    "allow somebody/​something to",
                    "let somebody/​something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["about", "around", "across"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the freedom to roam",
                    "the right to roam",
                    "roam the earth"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊm/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roam__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊmz/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roams__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊmd/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roamed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊmɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roaming__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊm/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roam__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊmz/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roams__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊmd/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roamed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊmɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ro/roam/roaming__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: of unknown origin."
}