rovers

noun

plural of rover
1
as in nomads
a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination ever since he developed a strong case of wanderlust in college, he's been a rover

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2
as in pirates
someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea a story of the days when sea rovers plied the Caribbean

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Recent Examples of rovers This includes images from Mars rovers starting in the 1990s and data showing that both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space in the 2010s. — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026 For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026 In ground testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the CADRE rovers achieved this coordination. — Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 For example, unlike plutonium, which has been used in nuclear batteries deployed in Mars rovers and deep space probes, tritium is considered a relatively low-risk radioisotope. — Tereza Pultarova, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Aug. 2026 The mission demonstrated that relatively low-cost robotic exploration could deliver enormous scientific returns and paved the way for the sophisticated Mars rovers that followed. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026 Its robotics exhibits ranged from humanoids that could walk, run and manipulate objects to quadrupeds and mobile rovers built for difficult terrain. — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rovers
  1. nomads
  2. pirates
  3. wanderers
  4. travelers
  5. drifters
Noun
  • On the side streets, small stands sell bad food and plastic trinkets, while a few Travellers, Ireland’s indigenous nomads, work rival fortune-telling franchises.
    — Susan Neiman, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Jason and his family are living like multiversal nomads, traveling to different worlds in search of a home, and this lets the show get into the nitty-gritty of how the box works and the rules for traveling between worlds.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of nomads
Noun
  • But the rollicking jollity that accompanies the final two acts, which includes the entrance of pirates and the abduction of Marina to a brothel, robs the ending of some of its pathos.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Speaking of singing pirates, Curry clearly fancied these kinds of roles, signing on to play the villainous Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Brian Henson’s musical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of pirates
Noun
  • Connecting with this odd population of wanderers is one of the surprise pleasures of our annual Bishop trip.
    — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026
  • My eight women are divided into wanderers, rebels, explorers, and mentors.
    — Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of wanderers
Noun
  • And yet, despite America’s best efforts, in the midst of this horror, millions of artists, travelers, and inventors created love, and light.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But treating solo travelers as an audience rather than an accommodation is harder.
    — Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of travelers
Noun
  • Babylon 5 followed the diplomats, soldiers, and drifters aboard the station, built as neutral ground between humans and a handful of alien civilizations teetering on the edge of war.
    — JP Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026
  • According to Rouse, the album grew out of observations gathered while traveling, with its songs populated by drifters, dreamers and fleeting encounters that blur the line between fiction and autobiography.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of drifters

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