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CEFRA2

/ˈɹaʊ̯nd/

adjective · noun · verb

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In plain English

01
adjective
Shaped like a circle or a ball.
02
noun
One stage of a competition or a series of events.

Examples

Everybody joins hands and dances round.
Her eyes become round in surprise.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ɹuːnd/
/ɹʊnd/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Of shape:, Loosely or approximately circular.
Of shape:, Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.

verb

Extra meaning

To change a number to a nearby simpler number.

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In context

The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
Round trip? Only one-way.

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The soccer ball is perfectly blank, allowing it to roll in any direction.

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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.
1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin,...
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.
1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
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.
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 47
"Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.)
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 421
Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2

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Origin

adjective

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.

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adjective

verb

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The soccer ball is perfectly blank—, allowing it to roll in any direction.

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adjective

The soccer ball is perfectly blank, allowing it to roll in any direction.