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ROVING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Travelling about without any clear destination

Example:

she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him

Synonyms:

roving; vagabondage; wandering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("roving" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roving"):

drifting (aimless wandering from place to place)

Derivation:

rove (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)

 II. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Migratory

Example:

wandering tribes

Synonyms:

mobile; nomadic; peregrine; roving; wandering

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unsettled (not settled or established)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb rove

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