Meaning of round in English
Verb
roundDefinitions
1. wind aroundExamples
- « move along a circular course »
- « round the bend »
- 2. make round
Examples
- « round the edges »
- 3. be around
Examples
- « Developments surround the town »
- « The river encircles the village »
- 4. pronounce with rounded lips
- 5. attack in speech or writing
Examples
- « The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker »
- 6. bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
Examples
- « polish your social manners »
- 7. express as a round number
Examples
- « round off the amount »
- 8. become round, plump, or shapely
Examples
- « The young woman is fleshing out »
Classifying Adjective
roundDefinitions
1. (of sounds) full and richExamples
- « orotund tones »
- « the rotund and reverberating phrase »
- « pear-shaped vowels »
Synonyms
- 2. (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand
Examples
- « in round numbers »
Synonyms
Adverb
roundDefinitions
1. from beginning to endExamples
- « throughout »
- « It rains all year round on Skye »
- « frigid weather the year around »
Noun
roundDefinitions
1. a charge of ammunition for a single shot- 2. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
Examples
- « the neverending cycle of the seasons »
- 3. a regular route for a sentry or policeman
Examples
- « in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name »
- 4. (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
Examples
- « the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning »
- « the postman's rounds »
- « we enjoyed our round of the local bars »
- 5. the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
Examples
- « a round of golf takes about 4 hours »
- 6. the usual activities in your day
Examples
- « the doctor made his rounds »
- 7. (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
- 8. the course along which communications spread
Examples
- « the story is going the rounds in Washington »
- 9. a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
Examples
- « he ordered a second round »
- 10. a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- 11. a partsong in which voices follow each other
Examples
- « one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time »
- « they enjoyed singing rounds »
- 12. an outburst of applause
Examples
- « there was a round of applause »
- 13. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- 14. any circular or rotating mechanism
Examples
- « the machine punched out metal circles »
Qualitative Adjective
roundEtymology
Middle English: from the Old French stem round-, from a variant of Latin rotundus‘rotund’Definitions
1. having a circular shapeSynonyms
- ball-shaped
- global
- globose
- globular
- orbicular
- spheric
- spherical
- bulblike
- bulbous
- capitate
- coccoid
- cumuliform
- discoid
- discoidal
- disklike
- moonlike
- moon-round
- nutlike
- pear-shaped
- ringlike
- roundish
- orbiculate
- orbicular
Antonyms