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All-around   /ɔl-ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
All-around

adjective
1.
Many-sided.  Synonyms: all-round, well-rounded.  "A well-rounded curriculum"






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"All-around" Quotes from Famous Books



... amiability itself. After ordering dinner, composed of the most expensive items on the menu, she rested her elbows on the table and announced: "I am going to hire a coach for you three girls. I have the address of an all-around sportsman who will teach you a few plays that no one ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... sitting by the bed of a dying parishioner. He watched the long hours through, dressed as he had been in the afternoon, in a grey flannel suit, his thin neck too long and too spare for his all-around collar, and as he watched sometimes and sometimes prayed, he too felt the pressure ...
— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... in the Army is a hard-working job," Prescott rejoined. "However, there's nothing in that fact to make it difficult for an officer to be a gentleman, too. In fact, he must be an all-around gentleman, or get ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock



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