α. See roam v. and -er suffix1.
β. late Middle English romour.
单词 | roamer |
释义 | roamern.α. See roam v. and -er suffix1. β. late Middle English romour. A person who roams; a wanderer, rambler. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iv. 120 Til..religious romares [v.r. Romeris; C. out-ryders] recordare in here cloistres, As seynt Benet hem bad, Bernarde and Fraunceys. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. 306 (MED) Ac now is religioun a ryder, a rowmer [v.rr. Romere; rennere] bi stretes. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Roméo..A roamer, a wandrer. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rodeur, a vagabond, roamer, wanderer. ?1794 S. T. Coleridge Sonn. xii Pale Roamer through the night! 1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 15 Calamity's a roamer, still abroad With restless flitting. 1883 A. Jessop in 19th Cent. Oct. 599 They are not afraid of work, though they are roamers. 1922 W. Le Queux Voice from Void iii. 29 The boy was a roamer and an adventurer. His profession made him that. 2001 My Business May 62/1 The nature of the service industry is that people tend to move from job to job, and the job market in this area offers the roamers more choices than ever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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