Roving vs Vagabond - What's the difference?
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wandering freely.
:His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.
* 1989 , , Concrete: Visible Breath , Dark Horse Books
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
* Bible, Genesis iv. 12
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
* Milton
* 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
Roving is a related term of vagabond.
As adjectives the difference between roving and vagabond
is that roving is wandering freely while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.As verbs the difference between roving and vagabond
is that roving is while vagabond is to roam, as a vagabond.As nouns the difference between roving and vagabond
is that roving is a long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.roving
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.
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* wanderingVerb
(head)vagabond
English
Noun
(en noun)- A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
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* See alsoHypernyms
* personAdjective
(-)- To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
- Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.