different between refugee vs rover

English

Etymology

From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier (“to take refuge”), describing early French Protestants seeking refuge after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fj?d?i?/, /??fj??d?i?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

refugee (plural refugees)

1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country, i.e., a person seeking political asylum.
2. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster, war, etc.
3. A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
4. (by extension) A person who flees one place or institution for another.
   • 2010, Brian Harrison, Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 (page 2181)

     Why did the SDP dream eventually fade? Partly because it succeeded far better inside parliament than out. It might attract some inner-city Catholic traditionalist Labour refugees from Labour's left, but many of those were already gentrifying.

Derived terms

• rapefugee
• reffo
• refugeehood
• refugitive

Translations

Verb

refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)

1. (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.

See also

• asylum
• citizenshipless
• countryless
• economic asylum
• nationless
• political asylum
• refoulement
• refuge

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????v?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??v?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English roven (“to wander, to shoot an arrow randomly”) +? -er.

Noun

rover (plural rovers)

1. (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, Chapter 22.

     "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.

2. One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
   • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, Chapter 1.

     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.
3. A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

   She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.

   • 1954, Pat Ballard, Mr. Sandman, (song)

     Give him the word, that I'm not a rover, and tell him that his lonely days are over.

4. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
   • September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY"

     NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position

5. A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
6. (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').
7. (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
8. (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.
9. (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
10. (obsolete) A sort of arrow.
    • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

      All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch roven (“to rob”). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian røver (“robber, thief, highwayman, brigand”), Swedish rövare, German Räuber. Compare the native English word reaver, which is ultimately the same composition.

Noun

rover (plural rovers)

1. A pirate.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     the rovers and theeves

2. A pirate ship.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinnson Crusoe, Chapter 2.

     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.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôvere. Equivalent to roven +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: ro?ver
• Rhymes: -o?v?r

Noun

rover m (plural rovers, diminutive rovertje n)

1. robber

Derived terms

• roversbende
• rovershol
• roversnest
• straatrover
• struikrover
• zeerover (“pirate”)

Related terms

• roof

Descendants

• Afrikaans: rower

Anagrams

• vrore

Old French

Alternative forms

• ruver

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Latin rog?re, present active infinitive of rog?. The forms in -uis- was very likely due to analogy with forms of pooir.

Verb

rover

1. to order (give an order)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-v, *-vs, *-vt are modified to f, s, t. This verb has a stressed present stem ruev distinct from the unstressed stem rov, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• rovaison