roving

/'rouviɳ/

Thân thiện

A roving photographer takes pictures of wildlife in the savanna.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Moving from place to place; wandering without a fixed destination: Describes a person, group, or lifestyle characterized by constant travel and lack of permanent settlement.
   • Not fixed or stable; constantly shifting: Can describe something abstract, like attention or interests, that moves from one subject to another.

2. Noun:

   • The act of traveling about without a clear or fixed destination: The action or practice of wandering.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:

  • The roving reporter sent dispatches from conflict zones around the world.
  • He has a roving eye, always noticing other people.
  • A roving band of musicians performed in the town square.

• Noun:

  • His years of roving finally came to an end when he settled down.
  • The novel describes the roving of a young man across the continent.

Advanced Usage

• "Roving commission": A role or job that involves traveling to various places to perform duties, often investigative or diplomatic in nature.

  • The journalist was given a roving commission to cover environmental issues in Southeast Asia.

• "Roving ambassador": A diplomat who is not stationed in one country but travels to various locations to represent their government.

  • She served as a roving ambassador, fostering cultural ties across several nations.

Variants and Related Words

• Rove (verb): To wander or travel without a definite destination.

  • He loved to rove through the ancient forests.

• Rover (noun): A person who roves; a wanderer.

  • The old rover had stories from every port.

Synonyms

• Wandering: Moving about without a fixed course.
• Nomadic: Living by moving from place to place.
• Itinerant: Traveling from place to place, especially for work.
• Peripatetic: Traveling from place to place, especially as part of one's job.

Related Phrases

• To have a roving eye: To be habitually unfaithful or to look at other people with sexual interest while in a relationship.

  • His wife accused him of having a roving eye.

• Roving reporter: A journalist who travels to different locations to cover news stories.

  • The network's roving reporter provided live updates from the disaster area.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. migratory
   • a restless mobile society
   • the nomadic habits of the Bedouins
   • believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future
   • wandering tribes

Noun

1. travelling about without any clear destination
   • she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him

Từ đồng nghĩa

• mobile
• nomadic
• peregrine
• wandering
• vagabondage