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Word: Rove
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late 15th century (originally a term in archery in the sense ‘shoot at a casual mark of undetermined range’): perhaps from dialect rave ‘to stray’, probably of Scandinavian origin
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
rəʊv
Dialects: British English
Definition:
travel constantly without a fixed destination; wander
Short Definition:travel constantly without fixed destination
Examples:- he spent most of the 1990s roving about the Caribbean
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