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# roving

«roving» in Mova's school dictionary: **wandering from place to place without a fixed home or plan** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (roving); verb form of «rove»

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x1)
- She went roving through the wide world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x2)
- A roving band of travellers came to the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roving» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roving/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.