Meaning & use
rover
A vehicle designed to travel over rough or unfamiliar terrain, especially one used to explore another planet.
See it in a sentence
The Mars rover sent back detailed images of the planet's rocky surface.
Scientists carefully guided the rover around a deep, unstable crater.
A note on using this word
Rover can also mean a person who wanders without a fixed destination, an older sense less common than the space-vehicle one.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A person who wanders from place to place without a settled home or purpose.
As a young rover, he hitchhiked across three countries in one summer.
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