rover

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊvə/
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• General-American: /ˈɹoʊvɚ/
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• Scotland: /ˈɾovəɾ/
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• Wales: /ˈɾoːvə/ without the toe–tow merger
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• rhymes with -əʊvə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From rover.

From 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. cognates * Danish røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”) * German Räuber * Norwegian røver (“brigand, highwayman, robber, thief”)

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”).

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: скитник (skitnik) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Bulgarian: странник (strannik) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Finnish: kiertolainen — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Finnish: kulkuri — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Finnish: paimentolainen (nomad) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Finnish: vaeltaja — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• German: Nomade — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• German: Vagabund — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• German: Wanderer — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• German: Weltenbummler — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Greek: περιπλανώμενος (periplanómenos) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Greek: πλάνης (plánis) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Macedonian: скитник (skitnik) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Māori: kaewa — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Marathi: भटकणारा (bhaṭakṇārā) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Marathi: भटकणारे (bhaṭakṇāre) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Marathi: भटकणारी (bhaṭakṇārī) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Polish: wagabunda — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Polish: włóczykij — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Polish: wędrowiec — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Russian: бродя́га (brodjága) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Russian: скита́лец (skitálec) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Russian: стра́нник (stránnik) — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Spanish: trotamundos — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Spanish: vagabundo — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Swedish: nomad — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Swedish: vandrare — person or animal that travels around, especially over a wide area, without a fixed destination
• Finnish: kulkuri — restless, unsteady person who does not settle down
• Polish: wagabunda — restless, unsteady person who does not settle down
• Polish: włóczykij — restless, unsteady person who does not settle down
• Polish: wędrowiec — restless, unsteady person who does not settle down
• Finnish: paikattoman lipun omistava henkilö — person who has a ticket for an event, performance, etc., but no assigned seat
• Polish: osoba z biletem bez siedzenia — person who has a ticket for an event, performance, etc., but no assigned seat
• Bulgarian: сонда (sonda) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Chinese Mandarin: 探測漫遊者 /探测漫游者 (tàncè mànyóuzhě) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Dutch: rover — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Finnish: kulkija — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Finnish: mönkijä — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• German: Rover — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Hungarian: járó — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Japanese: ローバー (rōbā) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Luxembourgish: Rover — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Macedonian: марсоо́д (marsoód) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Macedonian: месечиноо́д (mesečinoód) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Macedonian: планетоо́д (planetoód) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Marathi: रोव्हर (rovhar) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Polish: łazik — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Romanian: rover — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Russian: планетохо́д (planetoxód) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Spanish: astromóvil — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Swedish: rover — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Swedish: strövare — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Ukrainian: планетохі́д (planetoxíd) — small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies
• Finnish: rover — (American football) defensive back position; player playing this position
• Polish: rover — (American football) defensive back position; player playing this position
• Finnish: harjoitusmaali — (archery) target randomly selected by an archer, usually for practice; fixed target for practising long-distance shooting
• Polish: cel przygodny — (archery) target randomly selected by an archer, usually for practice; fixed target for practising long-distance shooting
• Finnish: rover — (Australian rules football) position that is one of three of a team’s followers making up a ruck; player playing this position
• Marathi: रोव्हर (rovhar) — (Australian rules football) position that is one of three of a team’s followers making up a ruck; player playing this position
• Polish: rover — (Australian rules football) position that is one of three of a team’s followers making up a ruck; player playing this position
• Polish: rover — (croquet) ball which has passed through all the hoops and would peg out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; player of such a ball
• Finnish: kauko-ohjattu vedenalainen ajoneuvo — remotely operated underwater vehicle
• Polish: robot podwodny — remotely operated underwater vehicle
• Finnish: rover — (softball) tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball
• Polish: rover — (softball) tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball
• Finnish: rover — (rugby union) forward whose responsibility was to feed the scrum and protect the scrum-half
• Polish: rover — (rugby union) forward whose responsibility was to feed the scrum and protect the scrum-half
• Finnish: aikalippu — type of pass, ticket, etc., that allows the holder unlimited travel on certain types of public transport for specified periods
• Polish: bilet sieciowy — type of pass, ticket, etc., that allows the holder unlimited travel on certain types of public transport for specified periods
• Finnish: tiedustelupartio — airborne reconnaissance patrol
• Polish: powietrzny patrol rozpoznawczy — airborne reconnaissance patrol
• Finnish: esikehrääjä — one who forms cotton, etc., into rovings
• Polish: osoba wytwarzająca niedoprzęd — one who forms cotton, etc., into rovings
• Finnish: esikehruukone — machine used to make rovings
• Polish: niedoprzędzarka — machine used to make rovings