round

adjective, adverb, preposition, noun, verb adjective (rounder, roundest) 1 shaped like a circle or a ball: a round table / plate * These glasses suit people with round faces. * The fruit are small and round. * Rugby isn't played with a round ball. * the discovery that the world is round * The child was watching it all with big round eyes (= showing interest). * a T-shirt with a round neck seealsoROUND-EYED, ROUND-TABLE 2 having a curved shape: the round green hills of Donegal * round brackets (= in punctuation) * She had a small mouth and round pink cheeks. 3 [onlybeforenoun] a round figure or amount is one that is given as a whole number, usually one ending in 0 or 5: Make it a round figure-say forty dollars. * Two thousand is a nice round number-put that down. * Well, in round figures (= not giving the exact figures) we've spent twenty thousand so far. roundness noun [U] (written): His face had lost its boyish roundness. adverb (especially BrE) (AmE usually around) For the special uses of round in phrasal verbs, look at the verb entries. For example, the meaning of come round to sth is given in the phrasal verb section of the entry for come. 1 moving in a circle: Everybody joins hands and dances round. * How do you make the wheels go round? * The children were spinning round and round. * (figurative) The thought kept going round and round in her head. 2 measuring or marking the edge or outside of sth: a young tree measuring only 18 inches round * They've built a high fence all round to keep intruders out. 3 on all sides of sb/sth: A large crowd had gathered round to watch. 4 at various places in an area: People stood round waiting for something to happen. 5 in a circle or curve to face another way or the opposite way: He turned the car round and drove back again. * She looked round at the sound of his voice. 6 to the other side of sth: We walked round to the back of the house. * The road's blocked-you'll have to drive the long way round. 7 from one place, person, etc. to another: They've moved all the furniture round. * He went round interviewing people about local traditions. * Pass the biscuits round. * Have we enough cups to go round? 8 (informal) to or at a particular place, especially where sb lives: I'll be round in an hour. * We've invited the Frasers round this evening. -< AROUND IDIOMS round about 1 in the area near a place: in Oxford and the villages round about 2 approximately: We're leaving round about ten. * A new roof will cost round about ｣3000. moreatTIME preposition (especially BrE) (AmE usually around) 1 in a circle: the first woman to sail round the world * The earth moves round the sun. 2 on, to or from the other side of sth: Our house is round the next bend. * There she is, coming round the corner. * There must be a way round the problem. 3 on all sides of sb/sth; surrounding sb/sth: She put her arms round him. * He had a scarf round his neck. * They were all sitting round the table. 4 in or to many parts of sth: She looked all round the room. 5 to fit in with particular people, ideas, etc: He has to organize his life round the kids. -> AROUND IDIOMS round here near where you are now or where you live: There are no decent schools round here.