rover
One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area,…One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination; a nomad, a roamer, a wanderer.
» Do you support City or Rovers?
Bist du für „City“ oder die „Rovers“?
Ти вболіваєш за Бристоль Сіті чи за Бристоль Роверз?
Meaning
19 sensesOne who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination; a nomad, a roamer, a wanderer.
Nomade, Vagabund, Wanderer
бродя́гаbrodjága, скита́лецskitálec, стра́нникstránnik
(broadly, dated)A restless, unsteady person who does not settle down; specifically (historical), a flirtatious, unfaithful man; a rake.
Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.
(broadly, historical)Also rover ticket: a person who has a ticket for an event, performance, etc., but no assigned seat, and so has to find a place to sit or stand.
(broadly)A small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
Rover
планетохо́дplanetoxód
планетохі́дplanetoxíd
(broadly)A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a combination of those of a cornerback, linebacker, and safety; also, a player playing this position.
(broadly, historical)Chiefly in the plural in the form to shoot at rovers: a target randomly selected by an archer, usually for practice; also, a fixed target for practising long-distance shooting.
(broadly)A position that is one of three of a team's followers making up a ruck, who follow the ball around the ground; also, a player playing this position, who is generally fast and skilful at receiving the ball, and formerly of shorter stature.
(broadly)In full rover ball: a ball which has passed through all the hoops and would peg out if it hit the stake but is continued in play to help fellow players or obstruct opposing players; also, the player of such a ball.
(broadly)A remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROUV) or remotely operated vehicle (ROV).
(broadly)The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
(broadly, historical)A forward whose responsibility was to feed the scrum and protect the scrum-half; the position was abandoned after a 1931 rule change.
(UK, attributive, broadly)Especially in rover ticket: a type of pass, ticket, etc., that allows the holder unlimited travel on certain types of public transport for specified periods.
- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
Examples
39 sentencesDo you support City or Rovers?
Ти вболіваєш за Бристоль Сіті чи за Бристоль Роверз?
deBist du für „City“ oder die „Rovers“?
The robot started looking for the rover.
Flavio saw four zombies heading to the rover.
Mars rovers help scientists learn more about the planet's surface and climate.
Flavio left the rover.
Translations
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Origin
From rove (“to roam, wander; (archery) to shoot an arrow randomly”) + -er (suffix formingFrom rove (“to roam, wander; (archery) to shoot an arrow randomly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is derived from Late Middle English *roven, rove (“to wander”); further etymology uncertain, possibly an English Midlands variant of Northern England raven, rave (“to rove, stray, wander”), possibly from Old Norse ráfa (“to roam, wander”) (although rove and rave are only attested much later), possibly from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to cause to weave; to entangle, wrap”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
From Late Middle English rover, rovere (“pirate”), borrowed from Middle Dutch rôver, rôvere (from rôven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), or Middle Low German rōver (“plunderer, robber; pirate, reaver”) (from rōven (“to pillage, plunder, rob”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs)), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *raubōną (“to plunder, rob, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break, tear (up)”). Doublet of reaver.
From rove (“to card (wool or other fibres)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is probably a variant of row (“(Scotland, obsolete, rare) to make (cotton, wool, etc.) into rovings”), probably from row (“(Ireland, Scotland, archaic) rove or roving of cotton, wool, etc.”), probably a variant of roll (“thing which is rolled up”), ultimately from Latin rota (“wheel”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll; to run”).
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