how to pronounce rove

/ˈɹoʊv/

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rove is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of rove in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

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meanings of rove

verb:

To draw through an eye or aperture.
To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
Simple past tense of rive.
To card wool or other fibres.
To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
Simple past tense of reeve.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
To roam or wander through.
To shoot with arrows (at).

noun:

A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

rove frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word rove occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics rove can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that rove can be often used in the following areas:

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