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around

around

251 1.0
To go to someone's home to visit
  • adverb
  • /əˈraʊnd/
translation icon : pasar por
  • I waited where we'd been sitting, but the people around there said you'd gone.
  • come around

We're ambassadors, we show the child around this Holy Land.

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Examples

  • We're ambassadors, we show the child around this Holy Land.

  • And yeah, let me show you guys around starting from the beginning.

  • So, let me show you around, okay?

  • Do you mind if I drop around in the morning just to see if you are alright?

  • But we are here and I'm going to walk you around the studio.

  • How about, I come around tomorrow and I will give you a full tutorial?

  • Karen drove quickly past it, into the driveway, and around to the back of the house.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • After 6 months, Claremont hired Alf to drive us around.

  • I visit my grandmother's house around the holidays to celebrate with the family.

  • Can you come around to my place this evening to help me with the project?

Synonyms

about
vsaround
438 1.0

In or around a place, moving from one part to another

indicates movement toward a particular place or a person's home
thereabouts
vsaround
1 4.9

In or near that place

shows movement heading to a particular place or a person's home

Antonyms

1.0

To remove something so you no longer have it, for example by giving or throwing it

Idioms

In many different countries on all continents

Very near in place or happening soon

In the opposite order, direction, or situation

Happens all day and all night without stopping

To make big positive changes in your life after hard times

9 9.1

Having sex with many different people without a steady partner

7 2.2

People sitting near a fire to talk and relax

There is enough for everyone to have some

6 8.1

A person who has a lot of experience from many situations

6 4.6

To be much better than someone at doing something

To use your power to make others do what you want

To make someone do what you want by charming them

The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love

A constant problem or responsibility that is hard to get rid of

Having extra fat around the waist

around the bend
  • Offensive
1 9.3

To be very confused or act in a strange way

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

1 9.9

People in a community spread it as gossip

To take a long, unnecessary route to reach a place or answer

To avoid saying something directly by talking a long time before answering

To talk or act in a long, roundabout way to avoid the main point

Behaving as if you are the most important person and others do not matter

Talk in a relaxed, joking way and make stories bigger to be funny

Compounds

14 1.0

A short time spent moving on foot in a place without a clear destination

Happening all day and night without stopping

go-around
  • Specialized
4 8.4

Stopping an approach or attempt to try again, for example when a plane pulls up instead of landing

A man who is kind, helpful, and liked by others

1 7.7

An indirect way to avoid a rule or problem

reach-around
  • Jargon
1 9.9

A secret unfair action to get help or advantage

1 6.0

A children's game where players hold hands, walk in a circle, and fall down while singing

1 9.9

Money given during elections to get people to vote for a candidate or pay small local costs

ring-around-a-rosy
  • Baby Talk
8.0

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

around positive

Morphology

around = round (semi-transparent) = a + round

The relation to 'round' is still visible, but the use meaning 'to someone's place' or 'to a particular place' is a conventional extension.

Etymology

Around comes from a- 'on' and round 'circle', so it once meant being in someone's area. A helpful way to remember it is to think 'come around' = come 'to the place' for a visit.