Definitions
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Word origin
Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).
Used in a sentence
“And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]”
“Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.”
“And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Wander”4 letters
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