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Roving

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Noun

1. roving, vagabondage, wandering

travelling about without any clear destination

Example Sentences:
'she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him'

Adjective

2. mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering

migratory

Example Sentences:
'a restless mobile society'
'the nomadic habits of the Bedouins'
'believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future'
'wandering tribes'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Roving

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noun
4. 
the act of wandering about
unlimited roving in Corsica
adjective
1. 
travelling around, rather than staying in a fixed place
roving armed bandits
roving bands of delinquents
Left to raise themselves on the streets, these children form roving bands of delinquents.
Attractions include free face painting, street performers, and roving musicians.
troupes of roving court jesters
Within the fairgrounds, there are roving entertainers and events.
He now works as a roving ambassador for the Barbados Tourist Board.
2. Australian Rules football
playing as a rover
a powerfully built roving forward
3.  have a roving eye

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Roving

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noun
1. 
the strand of twisted and drawn-out fibers of cotton, wool, silk, etc. from which yarns are made
2. 
the process of preparing such a strand

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Roving

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n.
A continuous strand of loosely twisted and drawn fibers, such as wool, flax, silk, or cotton, ready to be spun.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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