roving
2
4.1
- adjective
- /ˈroʊvɪŋ/
:
errante
- Ingrid Horrocks has recently identified a shift in the genre from the roving, disembodied perspective of the gentleman in retirement that surveys the land to that of the vagrant wanderer figure.
- roving reporter
- roving correspondent
- roving band
I think he describes himself as the sort of roving eyeball that just sort of walks around the walks around the ship noticing things.
- I think he describes himself as the sort of roving eyeball that just sort of walks around the walks around the ship noticing things.
Examples
-
Today, our roving reporter is visiting Mrs. Elsie Hammontree of Azusa.
-
Hal's not the roving type, nor is Raylene.
-
Soon enough, vendors could be seen roving US city streets with similar machines.
-
Yeah, we have brave roving microphone people.
-
Her roving eye fixed on the tiny village on her bookshelf.
Fiction book (2002) -
And finally, our roving reporter, the late Biff Glonsky...
-
Be a roving reporter, a troubleshooter, be anything you want, but I'm not sending you to Vietnam.
Fiction book (1990) -
He already had the distinction of having taken care of the guerrilla leader's horse when the latter and his roving band stopped by one time in their village.
Fiction book (1999) -
Johnston himself was briefly a special envoy to the President of the United States in the Near East with the rank of ambassador in the early 1950s, and throughout the 1940s and 1950s was an unofficial roving cultural attaché for the United States.
Academic text (1991) -
The roving band of musicians played in different parks across the city each weekend.
Synonyms
22
4.9
People who move from place to place instead of living in one home
8
7.9
Traveling from place to place for work
1
5.0
People who move to different places to find work at certain times of the year
Moving from place to place rather than living in one place
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that pulls and lightly twists loose fibres to make thin yarn for spinning
How Wandering
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Roving comes from the old verb rove, which meant 'to wander' or move about. It is the same root as rover, so someone with a roving life is always on the move.