What is the meaning of roving?

noun

  • Travelling about without any clear destination.
    • usage: "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

verb

  • Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
    • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"

adjective

  • Migratory.
    • usage: "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
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