vroom
English
Etymology
Imitative
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm
Interjection
vroom
- The sound of an engine revving up.
- I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.
Translations
the sound of a sports car’s engine
Noun
vroom (plural vrooms)
- The sound of an engine revving up.
- 2003, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 48, number 2, page 52)
- Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.
- 2003, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 48, number 2, page 52)
Verb
vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)
See also
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch vrōme (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vrōme (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)
- pious, devout
- Synonym: godvruchtig
Inflection
Declension of vroom | ||||
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uninflected | vroom | |||
inflected | vrome | |||
comparative | vromer | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | vroom | vromer | het vroomst het vroomste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | vrome | vromere | vroomste |
n. sing. | vroom | vromer | vroomste | |
plural | vrome | vromere | vroomste | |
definite | vrome | vromere | vroomste | |
partitive | vrooms | vromers | — |
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- Rhymes:English/uːm
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- English nouns
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- English verbs
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- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Rhymes:Dutch/oːm
- Dutch lemmas
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