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Meanings of rove (roves) in English

Portuguese
vadiar
Catalan
vagar
Spanish
deambular

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.

      vadiar
      Usage of roves in English
      1
      It roves the locality, returning, swallow-like, to the close-fitting hollow of the root.
      Tropic Days
      2
      Thou art he who roves among all the summits of that great mountain.
      The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
      3
      He roves through the universe as Sesha, filled with great joy.
      The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
      4
      My eye roves, for relief, to those shelves where the later annals are.
      And Even Now
      5
      We built a rover, so unless the rover roves we haven't accomplished anything.
      The Guardian
      6
      Is not she the enemy of him who roves for plunder?
      St. George and St. Michael, Volume 2
      7
      She said, The drone maid said exactly the same thing about the London roves.
      Soulless
      8
      The eye roves over this vast domain in unwonted freedom.
      See America First
      9
      Vampires, even roves like the potentate, would do almost anything to protect a queen.
      Changeless
      10
      Freed from all bonds he roves over the world.
      The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
      11
      His great white eyeball never roves to anybody's in the dock, nor theirs to his.
      The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
      12
      It roves around a dimly lit, dark wood library.
      The Irish Times
      13
      Now, this thing with the roves, how long has it been going on would you say?
      Timeless
      14
      Our mistrust of loners and roves is not only custom, it is based on this fact.
      Heartless
      15
      No living creature that roves the surface of our earth moves faster than a healthy ostrich.
      Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
      16
      To find out where ze roves are gone.
      Soulless
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      Translations for roves
      Spanish
      deambular
      Roves through the time