round
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund.
Inflected forms:
form: round round
pos: adj
tags: canonical
form: more round
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most round
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rounder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: roundest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: around
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ron
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: around
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: around
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ron
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of shape:
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians^([sic]) trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
gloss: Of shape:
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
gloss: Of shape:
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: a round belly
a round face
If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
gloss: Of shape:
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
gloss: Of shape:
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.
gloss: Complete, whole, not lacking.
pos: adj
examples: The baker sold us a round dozen.
Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look'd so pale, / That each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong.
gloss: Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
pos: adj
examples: One hundred is a nice round number.
gloss: Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
pos: adj
examples: "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)
gloss: Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
pos: adj
examples: a round answer
a round oath
the round assertion
Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you.
Well, she must be plain with him, round with him, while she must not betray her child.
gloss: Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
pos: adj
examples: In his satires Horace is quick, round, and[…]pleasant.
gloss: Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Round dealing is the honour of man's nature.
gloss: Large in magnitude.
pos: adj
examples: I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.
gloss: Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
pos: adj
gloss: Vaulted.
pos: adj
gloss: Returning to its starting point.
pos: adj
examples: round trip, round journey, round walk
gloss: A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
pos: noun
examples: in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [...] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
All at once the sun was through, a round of dulled silver, racing slantwise through the clouds yet always staying in the same place.
gloss: A circular or repetitious route.
pos: noun
examples: hospital rounds
The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
gloss: A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
pos: noun
examples: The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.
gloss: A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
pos: noun
examples: They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
I said I did impersonations would you like to see
 Turned around to buy her one more round
gloss: A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
pos: noun
examples: Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
gloss: One slice of bread.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: For breakfast I had two rounds of toast and a mug of tea.
gloss: One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
pos: noun
gloss: A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
pos: noun
gloss: A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
pos: noun
examples: And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
gloss: A stage, level, set of events in a game
pos: noun
examples: qualifying rounds of the championship
gloss: A stage, level, set of events in a game
pos: noun
gloss: A stage, level, set of events in a game
pos: noun
examples: When the player uses one shell to complete a round within 50 seconds, it vanishes forever. At the end of two successful rounds, for instance, the player has only two shells to pick from during docking.
gloss: A stage, level, set of events in a game
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
pos: noun
examples: All furniture in the nursery had rounds on the edges and in the crevices.
gloss: The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
pos: noun
gloss: A rung, as of a ladder.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
The perpendicular parts of this side ladder, as is usually the case with swinging ones, were of cloth-covered rope, only the rounds were of wood, so that at every step there was a joint.
gloss: A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
pos: noun
examples: the round of the seasons    a round of pleasures
On life's long round by chance I found
 A dell impearled with dew,
 Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground,
 Lent to the earth heaven's native hue
 Of holy blue.
gloss: A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
pos: noun
examples: Women to cards may be compar'd: we play ¶ A round or two; when us'd, we throw away.
[…]the Feaſt was ſerv'd; the Bowl was crown'd;
 To the King's Pleaſure went the mirthful Round: […]
gloss: A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
pos: noun
examples: The trivial round, the common task,
 Would furnish all we ought to ask; […]
gloss: A circular dance.
pos: noun
examples: Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,
 In a light fantastic round.
gloss: Rotation, as in office; succession.
pos: noun
examples: A Cave[…],
Where light and darkness in perpetual round
Lodge and dislodge by turns.
gloss: A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
pos: noun
gloss: An assembly; a group; a circle.
pos: noun
examples: a round of politicians
gloss: A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel filled, as for drinking.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A round-top.
pos: noun
gloss: To shape something into a curve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The carpenter rounded the edges of the table.
Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
The figures on our modern medals are raiſed and rounded to a very great perfection.
gloss: To become shaped into a curve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.
gloss: To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
pos: verb
examples: She rounded out her education with only a single mathematics class.
We are such stuff
 As dreams are made on, and our little life
 Is rounded with a sleep.
gloss: To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The exact amount was $101.65, but we rounded it to $100.
95.9 rounds to 96.
gloss: To turn past a boundary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Helen watched him until he rounded the corner.
gloss: To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As a group of policemen went past him, one of them rounded on him, grabbing him by the arm.
gloss: To advance to home plate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And the runners round the bases on the double by Jones.
gloss: To go round, pass, go past.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.
gloss: To encircle; to encompass.
pos: verb
examples: The inclusive verge
 Of golden metal that must round my brow.
gloss: To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
pos: verb
examples: The queen your mother rounds apace.
So rounds he to a separate mind
⁠From whence clear memory may begin,
⁠As thro’ the frame that binds him in
His isolation grows defined.
gloss: To do ward rounds.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
gloss: To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: They […] nightly rounding walk.
gloss: To go or turn round; to wheel about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Antonyms: fillet
Related words: Acton Round
'round
Derived words: all-round
Boston round bottle
English round hand
enround
nonround
obround
round angle
roundarm
roundback
roundball
round-bottomed flask
round bracket
round character
round clam
round dance
round dozen
round-ear
round-eared tube-nosed bat
rounded vowel
rounden
rounders
roundeye
round-eyed
round file
roundfish
round game
roundhand
Roundhead
roundhead
roundheaded
round-headed bush clover
round-headed rampion
round heart disease
round-heeled
roundheels
round herring
roundhouse
round house
roundie
round iron
roundish
Round Lake Beach
roundleaf
round-leaved bloodwood
round ligament
round-like
round lime
round-lobed hepatica
round lot
roundly
round-mouthed
roundness
round number
Round Oak
roundpole
Round Pond
round-ridge
round robin
round s
roundshield
round ship
roundside
roundstone
Round Swamp
round table
round the clock
round-top
round trip
round tuit
round turn
round whitefish
round window
roundwise
roundwood
roundworm
round-wound
semiround
sewround
sqround
square peg in a round hole
squround
half-round
subround
roundabout
unround
all round
American round
baton round
clear round
conscience round
counterround
cutround
down round
eco round
elimination round
eye of round
flat round
get rounds
in the round
lightning round
live round
midround
milk round
multiround
newspaper round
newsround
paper round
pirate round
plastic baton round
postround
preround
quarter-round
round girl
roundles
roundman
round of 16
round of 32
round of applause
round of sixteen
roundsperson
sandwich round
theater-in-the-round
top round
tracer round
up round
York round
overround
round down
round in
round off
round on
round out
round to
round up
round upon
underround
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: патрон
roman: patron
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 發 /发
roman: faat³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 发
roman: fā
lang: Finnish
word: patruuna
lang: Finnish
word: ammus
lang: French
word: coup
lang: Irish
word: urchar
lang: Italian
word: carica
lang: Italian
word: salva
lang: Māori
word: rauna
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skudd
lang: Polish
word: nabój
lang: Polish
word: pocisk
lang: Portuguese
word: carga
lang: Russian
word: патро́н
roman: patrón
lang: Russian
word: вы́стрел
roman: výstrel
lang: Swedish
word: patron
lang: Turkish
word: mermi
lang: Turkish
word: kurşun
lang: Albanian
word: rendi
lang: Bulgarian
word: раздаване
roman: razdavane
lang: French
word: tour
lang: Portuguese
word: rodada
lang: Spanish
word: mano
lang: Swedish
word: giv
lang: Turkish
word: el
lang: Armenian
word: կլորել
roman: klorel
lang: Armenian
word: կլորացնել
roman: kloracʻnel
lang: Bulgarian
word: закръглям
roman: zakrǎgljam
lang: Czech
word: zaokrouhlit
lang: Finnish
word: pyöristää
lang: Hungarian
word: lekerekít
lang: Ido
word: rondigar
lang: Portuguese
word: arredondar
lang: Russian
word: округля́ть
roman: okrugljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: округли́ть
roman: okruglítʹ
lang: Russian
word: скругля́ть
roman: skrugljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: скругли́ть
roman: skruglítʹ
lang: Scots
word: roond
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cruinnich
lang: Slovene
word: zaobliti
lang: Swedish
word: runda