What is "roving" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does roving mean in English? Meaning of roving definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "roving" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "roving": travelling about without any clear destination

Noun

  • Meaning: travelling about without any clear destination
  • Example: she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him
  • Synonyms: roving vagabondage wandering
  • Hyponyms: drifting
  • Hypernyms: travel traveling travelling
  • Pronunciation in US: /ˈɹowvɪŋ/

    Meaning of "roving": migratory

    Adjective

  • Meaning: migratory
  • Example: a restless mobile society the nomadic habits of the Bedouins believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future wandering tribes
  • Synonyms: mobile nomadic peregrine roving wandering
  • Similar: unsettled
  • Pronunciation in US: /ˈɹowvɪŋ/

  • Adjective: wandering freely. His roving eyes never focused on anything specific. 1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.
  • Synonyms:

    rambling, moving, traveling, floating, wandering, roaming, peripatetic, wandering, itinerant, mobile, roaming, vagrant, ambulatory, arrant, desultory, digressive, discursive, migratory, nomadic, peregrine,

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