round
- adverb
- /raʊnd/
- His tan had never faded because he worked year-round at the sea and at the gas station.
- year-round
- round-the-clock workers
- occur year-round
Cannabis people will start to sell it all round.
- Cannabis people will start to sell it all round.
- We'd shift to another place all from Stoke Kenzel, rise all round, round and round and round.
Examples
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There's an open season all the year round for some creatures.
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Round the clock, the festival was full of exciting activities for everyone.
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I went to school round here.
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What makes the world go round?
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Just gather round right here in front of us.
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I'll have a look round.
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It's a bit slippery round here, but... this time of year.
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Gather round.
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Round the year, the team trained hard to prepare for the championship.
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The museum is open round the week, allowing visitors to explore at their convenience.
Synonyms
Happening all day and all night without stopping
Happens all day and night without stopping
Available all year, not only in one season
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 Often
Surface Forms
Etymology
Round as an adverb meaning 'throughout' comes from the related word around and the idea of covering all parts or the whole time, so 'round the year' means 'during the whole year'.