wraparound
5
4.8
- adjective
- /ˈræpəˌraʊnd/
- Is this a representative example of a wraparound case?
- wraparound services
- wraparound process
- wraparound plan
Examples
-
The stone-and-wood structure was predominantly glass: large picture windows and sliding doors leading out to the wraparound veranda.
Fiction book (1996) -
Maximum protection is provided by goggle-style or wraparound sunglasses that also provide side protection.
Academic text (1998) -
I opened the front door, and as I went outside, I put on the wraparound sunglasses.
Fiction book (1998) -
Two commercial furnaces were destroyed, and a wraparound deck is about to fall.
Blog text (19) -
A nice two-story on the beach with a wraparound veranda.
-
Older guys, some with women on their arms, sat at tufted wraparound banquettes along one wall.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Las Vegas Strip shone in towering neon through wraparound windows.
Fiction book (2000) -
The hotel has a beautiful wraparound balcony that gives guests a panoramic view of the ocean.
-
They installed a wraparound fence around the garden to keep the animals out.
-
Her new house features a spacious wraparound deck that surrounds the entire living area.
Synonyms
347
2.7
A person or place with people and things all around
231
2.8
Something that is on all sides of a place or person
4
3.9
Surrounded on all sides by other things, often with no easy way out
3
4.3
Surrounding something on all sides and covering it completely
2
9.3
Around the outer edge of something, like a road around a city
2
4.0
Surrounding something on all sides like a ring
1
4.7
Surrounding something on all sides
1
4.8
Covers the whole surface of something like a dress or wall
1
6.0
Going around the edge of something
1
9.9
Surrounding a place or object on all sides
1
9.9
Moving around something on all sides, like water, mist, or people
Surrounding something on all sides, like walls around a town
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wraparound is made from wrap + around, so it literally means 'going all the way around'. That is why we call a porch, skirt, or pair of sunglasses wraparound when they extend or cover something from one side to the other.