roving
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈroʊvɪŋ/
:
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- His favorite pastime was roving through various cities, exploring new cultures and meeting different people.
- a roving correspondent
- roving patrol
- roving gang
Examples
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You have what we can call a roving commission.
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The crowds in these impromptu camps bought food from stalls and roving vendors, drank water from nearby rivers and purpose dug wells and relieve themselves in crude latrines.
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From here, they served as home bases for the roving Alginjin.
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Our roving reporter Chip Saxton has the--
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We had our roving cameras on the losers first thing this morning, and here's what they had to say.
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Sleep, she knew well enough, was a useless effort at that point, so she prepared herself for her nightly roving.
Fiction book (1996) -
Animals had formed roving packs that grew bolder as their numbers swelled.
Fiction book (1997) -
Roving tinkers, gypsies, and sellers of small goods had set up a sort of impromptu fair near the bridge.
Fiction book (1991) -
After a long day of roving in the countryside, she loved to relax with a good book by the fire.
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The travelers enjoyed their summer of roving across Europe, visiting historic sites and tasting local foods.
Synonyms
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1.1
Going from one place to another, often over a distance
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5.0
Moving from place to place without a clear purpose
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3.4
Traveling from place to place without a fixed place to go
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9.9
A long trip visiting many different places
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8.4
Traveling on foot between different places
Moving from place to place without a home or clear purpose
Moving from one place to another, often over a long distance
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 verb rove, meaning 'to wander' or travel without a fixed home. So a person's roving is simply their wandering or travelling from place to place.