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rover

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"Wanderer"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹəʊvə/Part of speech nounSorted eorrvStarts with REnds with R1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

Word origin

From rove (“to card (wool or other fibres)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs). Rove is probably a variant of row (“(Scotland, obsolete, rare) to make (cotton, wool, etc.) into rovings”), probably from row (“(Ireland, Scotland, archaic) rove or roving of cotton, wool, etc.”), probably a variant of roll (“thing which is rolled up”), ultimately from Latin rota (“wheel”) and Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll; to run”).

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
  • She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.
  • Give him the word, that I'm not a rover, and tell him that his lonely days are over.

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