Usually means: Vehicle exploring remote planetary surfaces.
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  1. rover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rover: Merriam-Webster
  3. rover, rover, rover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rover, rover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rover: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rover: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rover, rover: Wordnik
  8. Rover, rover: Wiktionary
  9. rover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rover: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rover, rover: Dictionary.com
  12. rover: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ROVER, Rover (The Prisoner), Rover (car), Rover (ice hockey), Rover (marque), Rover (motorcycles), Rover (privateering ship), Rover (robot dog), Rover (song), Rover (space exploration), Rover (ticket), Rover (yacht), Rover, The Rover (Interpol song), The Rover (Led Zeppelin song), The Rover (novel), The Rover (play), The Rover (story paper), The Rover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Rover: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rover: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rover: Rhymezone
  17. rover, rover (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rover: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rover: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rover: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rover: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rover (football): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ROVER, ROVER, ROVER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. ROVER: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ROVER: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rover, Rover: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rover, the rover: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rover: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
noun:  One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
noun:  A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
noun:  A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
noun:  A remotely-operated vehicle.
noun:  (Australian Rules football) A position that is 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').
noun:  (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
noun:  (obsolete) A sort of arrow.
noun:  A pirate.
noun:  A pirate ship.
noun:  (sports) Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
noun:  (soccer) someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
noun:  (scouting) A member of the senior section of the Boy Scout movement catering for men of age 18 upwards, now disbanded.
noun:  A stereotypical given name for a dog.
noun:  A former make of a British motorcar.

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