hover Meaning & Definition

Synonyms of Hover

Antonyms of Hover

Hover in a Sentence

The hummingbird hovered by the plant.

His pen hovered above the paper.

The strange man hovered outside the gents’ toilet.

The visitors were hovering at the door, seemingly unwilling to enter.

Some helicopter parents weren’t so much dropping off their kids as hovering over them until the event started.

Filling in the voting form, I hovered between Labour and Liberal Democrat.

A tooltip appears when you hover over this link.

Many in the class hovered their cursors over words and icons for long periods before committing to clicking their mouse.

A hawk hovered overhead.

a hummingbird hovering over the flowers

Helicopters hovered above us.

Unemployment hovered around 10 percent.

… hovering uncomfortably behind a cigar …

The country hovers on the brink of famine.

Ospreys were most successful hunting from a hover and spent more of their hunting time doing it that way.

After a careful check outside to ensure that his flight path was clear, one of the pilots lifted his helicopter to a hover, then maneuvered to the middle of the valley.

claimed that the UFO hovered a moment, then spun off into space at incredible speed

after the first big layoff, the possibility of losing their jobs hovered over all of the factory's workers

a hummingbird hovering over the flowers / Helicopters hovered above us.

… hovering uncomfortably behind a cigar … / The country hovers on the brink of famine.

Ospreys were most successful hunting from a hover and spent more of their hunting time doing it that way. / After a careful check outside to ensure that his flight path was clear, one of the pilots lifted his helicopter to a hover, then maneuvered to the middle of the valley.

Word Forms & Grammar

hov·ered

hov·er·ing

hov·er·er noun

hover

hovered

hoverer

hoverers

hovering

hovers

hov·ers

hover (over)

hover over

hover (third-person singular simple present hovers, present participle hovering, simple past and past participle hovered)

hover (plural hovers)

Words That Rhyme With Hover

Origin of Hover

Origin 1: Middle English hoveren, frequentative of hoven to hover

Origin 2: The verb is derived from Middle English hoveren (“to float in the air, hover; to stay”),[1] probably from hoven (“hover; of a bird: to fly high in the air, soar”)[2] (which it displaced) + -er- (frequentative suffix).[3] Hoven is probably derived from Old English *hōfian, from hōfon, the plural past indicative form of hebban (“to lift, raise”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift; to heave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to hold, seize”). The English word is analysable as hove (“(obsolete) to remain suspended, float, hover; to linger, wait”) +‎ -er (frequentative suffix).[4]

Origin 3: The noun is derived from the verb.[5]

First Known Use

15th centuryi

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