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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

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rover

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Noun

HYPHEN

rov=er

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rover has 2 senses

rover(n = noun.person) bird of passage, roamer, wanderer - someone who leads a wandering unsettled life;

is a kind of traveler, traveller

has particulars: nomad, drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant

rover(n = noun.person) scouter - an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement;

is a kind of boy scout

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rover, n. [D. roover a robber. See Rove, v. i.].

One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. [1913 Webster]
"Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships." [1913 Webster]
One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler. [1913 Webster]
Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. [1913 Webster]
A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. [1913 Webster]
Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster]
"All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts." [1913 Webster]

"Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

rover, n.
1 a roving person; a wanderer.
2 Croquet a a ball that has passed all the hoops but not pegged out. b a player whose ball is a rover.
3 Archery a a mark chosen at undetermined range. b a mark for long-distance shooting.
4 (Rover) Brit. a senior Scout.

Usage

Now called Venture Scout.

rover, n. a sea robber, a pirate.

rover, n. a person or machine that makes roves of fibre.

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THESAURUS

rover

Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Flying Dutchman, Goliard, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Ulysses, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bird of passage, buccaneer, bum, corsair, drifter, floater, freebooter, gad, gadabout, go-about, gypsy, hobo, itinerant, mover, nomad, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rambler, roamer, rolling stone, runabout, sea dog, sea king, sea robber, sea rover, sea wolf, skyjacker, sojourner, straggler, stroller, strolling player, tourist, tramp, traveller, troubadour, vagabond, vagrant, viking, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfarer

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ROGET THESAURUS

rover

Thief

N thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.

Traveler

N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.