Log in or Sign up
  1. Romany love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Gypsy.
  2. n. The Indic language of the Gypsies. Also called Gypsy.
  3. adj. Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A Gipsy.
  2. n. The language spoken by the Gipsies. Originally a dialect brought from India and allied to the Hindustani, it has been much corrupted by the tongues of the peoples among whom the Gipsies have sojourned. The corrupt broken dialect now used by British Gipsies is called by them posh-romany or romanes; the purer, “deepromanes. See Gipsy.
  3. Belonging or relating to the Romanies or Gipsies: as, Romany songs; a Romany custom.
  4. Also Roman.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of Romani (a member of the Roma people).
  2. n. Alternative form of Romani (a nomadic people with origins in India, the Roma).
  3. n. Alternative form of Romani (the Indo-Aryan language of this people).
  4. adj. Alternative form of Romani (of or belonging to the Roma nation).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A gypsy.
  2. n. The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture
  2. n. a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America)
  3. n. the Indic language of the Gypsies

Etymologies

  1. Romany romani, feminine of romano, gypsy, from rom, man, from Prakrit ḍoma, man of a low caste, of Dravidian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘Romany’.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for Romany.

‘Romany’ has been looked up 971 times, added to 1 list, and is not a valid Scrabble word.