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Round   /raʊnd/   Listen
Round

adverb
1.
From beginning to end; throughout.  Synonym: around.  "Frigid weather the year around"
noun
1.
A charge of ammunition for a single shot.  Synonyms: one shot, unit of ammunition.
2.
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs.  Synonyms: cycle, rhythm.
3.
A regular route for a sentry or policeman.  Synonym: beat.
4.
(often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order).  "The postman's rounds" , "We enjoyed our round of the local bars"
5.
The activity of playing 18 holes of golf.  Synonym: round of golf.
6.
The usual activities in your day.  Synonym: daily round.
7.
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive.  Synonyms: bout, turn.
8.
The course along which communications spread.
9.
A serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic).  Synonym: round of drinks.
10.
A cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg.
11.
A partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time.  Synonym: troll.
12.
An outburst of applause.
13.
A crosspiece between the legs of a chair.  Synonyms: rung, stave.
14.
Any circular or rotating mechanism.  Synonym: circle.
adjective
1.
Having a circular shape.  Synonym: circular.
2.
(of sounds) full and rich.  Synonyms: orotund, pear-shaped, rotund.  "The rotund and reverberating phrase" , "Pear-shaped vowels"
3.
(mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand.
verb
(past & past part. rounded; pres. part. rounding)
1.
Wind around; move along a circular course.
2.
Make round.  Synonyms: round off, round out.
3.
Pronounce with rounded lips.  Synonyms: labialise, labialize.
4.
Attack in speech or writing.  Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe.
5.
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.  Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off.
6.
Express as a round number.  Synonyms: round down, round off, round out.
7.
Become round, plump, or shapely.  Synonyms: fill out, flesh out.



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"Round" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a sudden feeling of hostile presence, he glanced round—and stood erect. The poor fellow's face at once flushed as red as shame could make it, but he neither lost his self-possession, nor sought to escape under cover of a useless pretence. ...
— Adela Cathcart, Vol. 3 • George MacDonald
... nonsense, for the rain will soon be here!" she laughed in spite of herself, as the round freckled face of her boy on hands and knees appeared with a grin from ...
— Some Three Hundred Years Ago • Edith Gilman Brewster
... took my round in the chicken coop to see that all the chickens were in. Three little chicks, four weeks old, deserted by their mother, were just coming in. They jumped on the first roosting lath, and then on the second, and began to walk toward the rooster. One little chap jumped on his back, and ...
— Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... "Now fly round, 'Lisbeth," said her mother. "You've dawdled enough these few days back, and there'll be an account to settle presently. I suppose your head was so full of that bunch of vanity you never remembered a word of the sermon yesterday. ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas
... suggested to me a tall, gaunt female with sharp features; and I was taken by surprise when a short, dumpy woman, with a round face, came wobbling in and ...
— True to Himself • Edward Stratemeyer


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