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Adjective roving has 1 sense
- mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering - (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
Antonym: settled (indirect, via unsettled)
Noun roving has 1 sense
- wandering, roving, vagabondage - travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
--1 is a kind of peregrination
--1 has particulars: drifting
Verb rove has 1 sense
- roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
They rove the countryside
They rove in the countryside
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