ROVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rover mean? 

• ROVER (noun)
  The noun ROVER has 2 senses:

1. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

2. an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

  Familiarity information: ROVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer

Hypernyms ("rover" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rover"):

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

rover; scouter

Hypernyms ("rover" is a kind of...):

Boy Scout (a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts)

 Context examples 

There was the taking of the sea-rovers, and the holding of the keep against the Jacks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This week, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the mission - about 21 parts per billion units by volume (ppbv).

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before — bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica.

(Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock, NASA)

The main purpose for most imaging of the sun by Curiosity and other Mars rovers has been to monitor how its apparent brightness is affected by dust in Mars' atmosphere above the rovers.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Tracks Sunspots, NASA)

From that context, the higher oxygen level can be linked to a time when groundwater was present in the rover's Gale Crater study area.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

The Chinese Jade Rabbit 2 rover is making tracks on the soft, snowlike surface of the far side of the moon.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA's Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put liquid brine in the soil at night.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

Using data from the Curiosity rover, the team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars, NASA)

"Look at his wings," said he, "he reminds me rather of a West Indian insect; one does not often see so large and gay a night-rover in England; there! he is flown."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Researchers plan to use the rover to collect and analyze a drilled sample of Stimson unit sandstone this month.

(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)