Refugee vs Rover - What's the difference?
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A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.
A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.
(transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
(archery, usually plural) A randomly selected target.
One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
Position in Australian Rules football, one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
(croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
(obsolete) A sort of arrow.
* Ben Jonson
A pirate or pirate ship.
* Holland
Refugee is a related term of rover.
As nouns the difference between refugee and rover
is that refugee is a person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, ie, a person seeking a political asylum while rover is robber.As a verb refugee
is (transitive|us|historical) to convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.refugee
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* reffo * refugeehoodSee also
* asylum * economic asylum * political asylum * refuge * refoulement * citizenshipless * countryless * nationlessVerb
rover
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- 1890' ''"By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or '''rovers , better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails." '' — Arthur Conan Doyle, ''The White Company ,
Chapter 22.
- 1846' ''But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous '''rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.'' — Herman Melville, ''Typee ,
Chapter 1.
- She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.
- 1954' ''Give him the word, that I'm not a '''rover , and tell him that his lonely days are over.
- The Mars Exploration Rovers will act as robot geologists while they are on the surface of Mars.
NASA site.
- All sorts, flights, rovers , and butt shafts.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), roven , to rob. Cognate with Danish and NorwegianNoun
(en noun)- 1719' ''The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish '''rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.'' — Daniel Defoe, ''Robinnson Crusoe ,
Chapter 2.
- Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honour more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships.