vroom
See also: Vroom
English edit
Etymology edit
Imitative
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /vɹuːm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
- Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm
Interjection edit
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 edit
the sound of a sports car’s engine
Noun edit
vroom (countable and uncountable, 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.
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Verb edit
vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)
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Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch vrōme (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vrōme (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.
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Adjective edit
vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)
- pious, devout
- Synonym: godvruchtig
Inflection edit
Inflection 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 | — |