round
- noun
- /raʊnd/
- I'm just doing the rounds and making sure everybody is coolio.
- make the rounds
- going the rounds
Examples
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Let's start making our rounds.
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A little late for your morning rounds, isn't it?
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Do you mind doing her rounds for her?
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- Six just this morning on my rounds.
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I was doing my rounds when all of a sudden...
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I was just about to make my rounds.
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With great effort, she made the rounds, greatly cheered at finding everyone still alive.
Fiction book (1996) -
Every day, the little band of dissolutes made its rounds of the theaters.
Fiction book (1996) -
She's doing her rounds.
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The new policies are making the rounds in various departments for feedback.
Synonyms
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
Antonyms
Idioms
To come together to show strong support for a leader or the country in danger
Compounds
- Literature
A large round table in stories about King Arthur where knights sit as equals
- Literature
A member of King Arthur's court who sits at the Round Table and is brave and fair
- Specialized
A small curved strip of wood or plastic used where a floor meets a wall to hide the gap
- Specialized
A small opening in the inner ear wall that leads to the part that senses sound
- UK
A regular route for delivering newspapers often done by a young person before school
- Literature
A round table where King Arthur and his knights sat as equals
- Specialized
A curved half-circle shape above a door or bridge seen in Roman buildings
Couples perform planned steps while moving in a circle to music guided by a leader
A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh
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A cord of tissue on each side of the womb that runs to the outer female genital area
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A freshwater fish with a bronze back and white belly from northern lakes and rivers
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A way of using the arm that swings out at shoulder height to throw or hit in sports like cricket
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A glass container with a round body and a narrow neck used for heating or mixing chemicals
A garden plant with a round bulb and purple flower head used for food and decoration
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A North American orchid with two round leaves and greenish white flowers on one stalk
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A brown mushroom with a pink stem and smooth round spores that grows on wood
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The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back
A small animal like a rat that lives in Florida wetlands and has a round tail
How Shared
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rounds for news or gossip comes from the idea of going 'round' from person to person in a circuit, so a story that makes the 'rounds' is travelling among many people.