Rovers - English meaning

noun

A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.

Usage examples:

Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.

noun

A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

noun

A habitual pleasure-seeker.

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Walter was a restless charmer and a gadabout

noun

A person who goes out a lot and does not worry about other things they should be doing

Usage examples:

Where have you been, you young gadabout!

noun

A person who travels widely.

Usage examples:

The film contains details of the travels of the two globetrotters, and will be played during the ex…

noun

Someone who travels regularly to different parts of the world

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She became something of a globetrotter, attending conferences all over the world.

noun

A member of a people originating in south asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across europe and north and south america and speaking a language (romani) that is related to hindi; a romani person.

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He was a political and social activist who devoted twenty years of his life to regaining the rights…

adjective

(of a business or worker) non-unionized or unlicensed.

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Gypsy trucking firms

noun

A member of a group of people who travel from place to place esp. in europe and who originally came from northern india, or anyone who travels often and does not live in one place for long

noun

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

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Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

adjective

Travelling from place to place.

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Itinerant traders

noun

A person who travels from place to place.

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A party of itinerants travelling in around 24 vehicles arrived at the factory on sunday evening.

adjective

(of a person) traveling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period

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Itinerant farm workers

noun

A member of a people that travels from place to place to find fresh pasture for its animals and has no permanent home.

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The withering of their grasslands forced the nomads of the sahara to descend into the nile valley

noun

A member of a group of people who move from one place to another, rather than living in one place all of the time

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Nomadic people

noun

Someone who likes to move around and travel, especially without a clear idea of what they want to do

Usage examples:

He's a bit of a roamer, so he could be anywhere in the country., roamers move abroad with just a co…

verb

Walk heavily or noisily.

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He tramped about the room

noun

A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.

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In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, va…

verb

To walk with heavy steps

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[ i ] i’ve been tramping through museums all day., tramps knew the houses where you got good food.,…

adjective

Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.

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A transient cold spell

noun

A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.

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The law had been applied to hotels and motels to collect a tax from transients, vacationers, and tr…

adjective

Lasting for only a short time; temporary

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The weakness was transient, and soon i was feeling strong again., transient workers come to pick ap…

noun

A person who is travelling or who often travels.

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Thousands of air travellers were left stranded

noun

A person who travels often, or who is travelling

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Air/rail travellers, business/independent/leisure travellers, business travellers make up just 20% …

noun

A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.

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Vagabond tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the …

adjective

Having no settled home.

Usage examples:

A vagabond poacher

verb

Wander about as or like a vagabond.

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He went vagabonding about the world

noun

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

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When stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the bowery in chinatown, photographi…

adjective

Relating to or living the life of a vagrant.

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Vagrant beggars

noun

A person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

noun

A person who travels aimlessly; a traveller.

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He is a longtime seaman, a rootless wanderer