Rover

See also: rover, rôver, røver, and Röver

English

Etymology

From rover.

Noun

Rover (plural Rovers)

1. (sports) Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
   1. (soccer) someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
2. (scouting) A member of the senior section of the Boy Scout movement catering for men of age 18 upwards, now disbanded.

Proper noun

Rover

1. A stereotypical given name for a dog.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 18:

     Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.

2. A former make of a British motorcar.

Descendants

• → Polish: rower
  • → Belarusian: ро́вар (róvar)
  • → Ukrainian: ро́вер (róver)
  • → Yiddish: ראָווער (rover)

See also

• Appendix:Names for animals

German

Rover

Etymology

Borrowed from English rover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔʊ̯vɐ/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ro‧ver

Noun

Rover m (strong, genitive Rovers, plural Rover)

1. rover (small manned or unmanned land vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies)

   Hypernym: Radfahrzeug

   Hyponyms: Marsrover, Mondrover

Declension

Declension of Rover [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Rover	die	Rover
genitive	eines	des	Rovers	der	Rover
dative	einem	dem	Rover	den	Rovern
accusative	einen	den	Rover	die	Rover

Further reading

• “Rover”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Rover” in Duden online
• “Rover”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Rover” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon