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# roving

adjective (roving); verb form of «rove»

«roving» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Roving means wandering from place to place without a fixed home or plan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, a person or animal moves about with no fixed place; in lessons it describes travelling or wandering

### Examples

- The robbers' mules were roving about with chests on their backs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x1)
- She went roving through the wide world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x2)
- A roving band of travellers came to the town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «roving» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roving» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/roving.html) on Mova free.