ROVER
What does "ROVER" mean?
A person who wanders from place to place; also a vehicle for exploring terrain, especially on another planet.
Meanings
- A wanderer; one who roams without a fixed destination. A restless rover, he never stayed in one town a season.
- A wheeled robotic vehicle used to explore a planet or moon's surface. The rover sent back its first images of the crater floor. technical
- A common name for a pet dog. She whistled and Rover came bounding across the yard. informal
Did you know?
- The word 'rover' once meant a sea-roving pirate, but NASA gave it new life: the Perseverance rover touched down in Mars's Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to wander a world no human has stood on.
Word origin
From Middle English 'roven' (to wander), possibly influenced by Middle Dutch 'rover' (robber, pirate) and the verb 'rove'.
Remember it
A ROVER ROVES OVER ground - it's right there inside the word: R-OVER, always going over the next hill.
A little poem
Wheels on red silence-
a small box crossing a world
no foot has ever pressed.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did they name the Mars explorer a rover? Because it does exactly what its name promises - it roves over everything in its path.
What it teaches
The same restlessness we once feared in wanderers is what we now strap to a rocket and call exploration.
Quick facts
What does ROVER mean?
A person who wanders from place to place; also a vehicle for exploring terrain, especially on another planet.
Is ROVER a valid word?
Yes — ROVER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ROVER?
ROVER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ROVER come from?
From Middle English 'roven' (to wander), possibly influenced by Middle Dutch 'rover' (robber, pirate) and the verb 'rove'.
What can ROVER teach us?
The same restlessness we once feared in wanderers is what we now strap to a rocket and call exploration.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.