roving
放浪する
解説 Definition
roving は rove（歩き回る、放浪する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。目的地を一つに定めずに各地を移動する様子を表し、人や集団、仕事の動きにも使われます。
The present participle and gerund of rove, meaning traveling or moving from place to place without remaining at one fixed location or following a single settled route. It can describe travelers, groups, workers, or an activity performed across a wide area.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 rove の無音 e を落として -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。固定地点を離れ、町から町へ目的地を定めず移る姿を思い浮かべ、roving through towns、roving around the city と覚えます。wandering と近いものの、roving は広い範囲を移動する人・集団・仕事にもよく使われます。
Make roving from rove by dropping the final silent e and adding -ing. Picture a photographer moving around a city at dawn or musicians traveling from village to village without a permanent base. Useful patterns include roving through towns and roving around the city. Wandering can suggest aimless movement over either a small or large area; roving often highlights repeated travel across a broader territory and is also common before nouns, as in a roving reporter, a roving patrol, or a roving band.
例文
They spent the summer roving through small coastal towns.
彼らは夏の間、小さな海沿いの町々を放浪して過ごしました。
The photographer enjoyed roving around the city at dawn.
その写真家は夜明けに街を歩き回るのを楽しみました。
A roving group of musicians visited several villages each week.
放浪する音楽家の一団が毎週いくつかの村を訪れました。
roving の類義語・関連語
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roving の語源・成り立ち Etymology
中低地ドイツ語のroven（奪う）が語源で、海賊が移動して襲う様子から、拠点を定めずさまよう意味へ転じました。接尾辞-ingは動作の継続を表します。関連語にrover（流浪者）があります。
Roving is the -ing form of rove, formed by dropping the final silent e before the suffix. Rove entered English from a Middle Low German or related Germanic verb meaning “to rob” or “plunder.” Its history is associated with raiders and pirates moving from place to place, from which the broader sense “wander or travel without a fixed destination” developed. Rover, meaning a wandering person or vehicle, is derived from the same verb.
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