Noun (2)
ever since he developed a strong case of wanderlust in college, he's been a rover
a story of the days when sea rovers plied the Caribbean
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Their three robotic rovers, outfitted with an array of cutting-edge imagery gear including time-of-flight cameras, helped the team generate an atlas of 3D maps of the site - from its skylight to its inner passageways.—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Specifically, the Eufy Marswalker is a rover companion for the Eufy RoboVac Omni S2, a high-end robot vacuum and mop hybrid that also made its debut at IFA.—PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025 After over 50 years of additional research, discoveries, and technological breakthroughs, the plan is now to go where no lunar rover has gone before.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025 Perseverance was built upon previous rover designs like Opportunity and Curiosity, but with a sharper focus on astrobiology and the long-term goal of returning Martian samples to Earth.—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rover
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Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Middle Dutch, from roven to rob; akin to Old English rēafian to reave — more at reave
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