Definitions for Rover

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Rover rov·er

Spelling: [roh-ver]

IPA: /ˈroʊ vər/

Rover is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Rover (eorrv).

Definitions for Rover

noun

1. a person who roves; wanderer.
2. Archery. a mark selected at random, as in a competition between two archers wandering over a specified area. one of a group of fixed marks at a long distance. an archer who shoots at such a mark.
3. Croquet. a ball that has been driven through all the arches and needs only to strike the last peg to be out of the game.
4. British. (at concerts or the like) a person who has a ticket for standing room only. a senior boy scout, 18 years of age or older.
5. a pirate.
6. Obsolete. a pirate ship.
7. a roving or routing machine.
8. a roving-machine operator.
9. a familiar name for a dog.

Origin of Rover

First recorded in 1490-1500; rove¹ + -er¹

Examples for Rover

If he said he was a “rover,” they claimed to be “Hounds,” and pounded him.

"Lay along, rover," I muttered, preparing for another snooze.

How was making The rover different than making the Twilight movies?

"I'd like to bring one of them down," said the oldest rover boy.

The rover had previously discovered definitive evidence of running water in the relatively recent past.

This happened to be the same day that another division of NASA landed a rover, dubbed Curiosity, on Mars.

His latest book is Blood's A rover, the final volume of his Underworld U.S.A. trilogy, published on Sept. 22 by Knopf.

"I will venture a rover with you, or try long-butts or hoyles," said old Johnston.

He has always been a rover, often tried to settle down but could not.

To discuss his work in The rover—and his career more generally—Pattinson recently sat down with The Daily Beast in Los Angeles.