Round Definition
(rare in US) Alternative form of around.
- With the stage in the center of the audience.
- Fully shaped so as to stand free of a background:
a sculpture in the round.
- To go from place to place, as on business or for entertainment:
a delivery truck making the rounds; students going the rounds in the entertainment district.
- To be communicated or passed from person to person:
The news quickly made the rounds. A piece of juicy gossip is going the rounds.
- to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- to walk one's regular course or circuit, as a watchman does
- with the audience or congregation seated all around a central stage, altar, etc.
- in full and completely rounded form, not in relief
- not having perfect roundness
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Round
- in the round
- make
- go the round
- in the round
- out of round
- round about
- round in
- round to
- round up
Origin of Round
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From Middle English rounen, from Old English rÅ«nian (“to whisper, talk low, talk secrets, consipre, talk secretly"), from Proto-Germanic *rÅ«nōnÄ… (“to talk secrets, whisper, decide"), *raunijanÄ… (“to investigate, examine, prove"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewÉ™-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out"). Cognate with Scots roun (“to converse with in whispers, speak privately"), Middle Low German rÅ«nen (“to whisper"), Middle Dutch ruinen (“to whisper"), German raunen (“to whisper, murmur"), Old English rÅ«n (“whisper, secret, mystery"), Swedish röna (“to meet with, experience"). More at rune.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English roun, from Old English rÅ«n (“whisper, secret, mystery"), from Proto-Germanic *rÅ«nō, *raunō (“a whisper, secret, secret sign"), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)rewÉ™-, *(e)rwō- (“to trace, find out, look out"). Cognate with Scots roun, round (“a whisper, secret story"), German Rune (“rune"), Swedish rön (“findings, observations, experience").
From Wiktionary
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From Old French ront, runt (> French rond), representing an earlier *rodond, from Latin rotundus (> Italian rotondo, Provençal redon, Spanish redondo etc.). The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Compare rotund and rotunda.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Anglo-Norman rounde variant of Old French rond ultimately from Vulgar Latin retundus from Latin rotundus ret- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English rounden from Old English rūnian from rūn a secret
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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