around
- adverb
- /əˈraʊnd/
- We walked around the pond to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
- all around
- around in a circle
- roll around
Examples
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But this you can like put around your neck, right?
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Round and around and around and around we go.
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So yes, go all the way around looking good.
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So inside the car, driving around, it sounds great.
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I want him to take a look around.
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The door was locked, so they walked around to the backyard and looked in the window.
Fiction book (1990) -
We ate at the park cafe, and then we drove around some more and went home.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ya'll go around the side of the house and come on around back.
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Thomas Fenster immediately woke and looked up and around, out the window, and then at me.
Fiction book (1990) -
Go to AFM, walk around, get your mind blown.
Synonyms
To be all around a person or thing on every side
To move around something in a circle
Move around something following a curved path
Move in a circle around a point, like a planet around the Sun
To go on foot around the edge of something instead of through it
To make something move in a circle around a central point
To form a circle around a person or thing
Move in a round path around someone or something
To go around something to get to the other side
To move along the edge of something
Move in a circle around a central object, like planets around the Sun
To move quickly in a circle, often through the air
Travel by boat around a place like a coast or lake
Move around something or someone in a circle
Idioms
The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love
- Informal
A constant problem or responsibility that is hard to get rid of
To take part in a traditional May Day dance in a circle around a tall decorated pole
To sail around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, often in dangerous weather
To avoid saying something directly by talking a long time before answering
- Archaic
To talk or act in a long, roundabout way to avoid the main point
- Informal
Behaving as if you are the most important person and others do not matter
- Informal
Talk in a relaxed, joking way and make stories bigger to be funny
Compounds
- Specialized
Stopping an approach or attempt to try again, for example when a plane pulls up instead of landing
- Baby Talk
A children's game where players hold hands, walk in a circle, and fall down while singing
- NSFW
Money given during elections to get people to vote for a candidate or pay small local costs
- Baby Talk
A children's game where players hold hands in a circle, sing, and fall down
Negative ideas that lead people to treat those with mental health problems unfairly
Surface Forms
Morphology
around = round (transparent) = a + round
This sense is essentially the same spatial meaning as 'round', with 'a-' forming the established adverbial variant 'around'.
Etymology
Around comes from a- 'on' + round 'circle', so it literally meant 'on the circle'. That's why around often means moving in a circle or going all the way around something.