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Definitions for Rover

[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.
[10] a person who roves; wanderer
[11] archery a mark selected at random for use as a target
[12] croquet a ball that has been driven through all the hoops but has not yet hit the winning peg
[13] Australian rules football one of the three players in the ruck, usually smaller than the other two, selected for his agility in play
[14] a small remote-controlled vehicle which roams over rough, esp extraterrestrial, terrain taking photographs, gathering rock and soil samples, etc
[15] a pirate or pirate ship
[16] a machine for roving wool, cotton, etc, or a person who operates such a machine
[17] British the former name for Venture Scout

Words related to Rover

wanderer, itinerant, vagrant, migrant, traveler, drifter, maverick, pirate, freebooter

Words nearby Rover

rov, rovaniemi, rove, rove beetle, rove-over, rover, rover boy, roving, roving commission, rovno, rovuma

Origin of Rover

3First recorded in 1735–45; rove3 + -er1

Word origin for Rover

C18: from rove ²

Synonyms for Rover

drifter, freebooter, itinerant, maverick, migrant, pirate, traveler, vagrant, wanderer