ROUND ABOUT

Definition: ROUND ABOUT

ROUND ABOUT

1. An emphatic form for round or about. ``Moses . . . set them [The elders] round about the tabernacle.'' --Num. xi. 24.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slang in 1811

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Circuit

Verb: perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander; (deviate).

Circuition

Circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; "put a girdle round about the earth"; go the round, make the round of.

Adverb: round about.

Circumjacence

Adverb: around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and left, all round, round about.

Deviation

Adverb: astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously.

Exteriority

Adjective: exterior, external; outer most; outward, outlying, outside, outdoor; round about; extramural; extralimitary, extramundane.

Violence

Phrase: furor arma ministrat; "blown with restless violence round about the pendent world".

Crosswords: ROUND ABOUT

Books

• A girdle round about the earth : astronomical & geographical discovery, 1460-1630 : catalogue of an exhibition [held] 27th April-30th June, 1974 (reference)

• Round about close to midnight : the jazz writings of Boris Vian (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Round About Roma (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Who can open the doors of this face? : his teeth are terrible round about -- Job 41:14. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The soldiers commenced the search of the houses round about and the pursuit of the fugitives.

Whereupon the huge creature trod short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied me as I lay on the ground.

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Expression using "ROUND ABOUT": ad round about. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

около (about, around, circa, in the region of, on, round, some, somewhere about, toward), приблизително (about, approximately, at a rough guess, much, near, nearly, roughly, some, something like, somewhere about). (various references)

German

rundherum (all around, totally). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסביב (about, around, round), חליל×" (around, god forbid). (various references)

Hungarian

tájban (at liberal, round, toward, towards), körül (about, abroad, along about, around, at liberal, round, to curry favour with sy, to skirt, toward, towards). (various references)

Pig Latin

oundray aboutay

Romanian

ocolit (circuitous, devious, roundabout), din toate pãrţile (from all parts, on all hands), în apropiere (around, at one's elbow, by, immediately, near, thereby). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrteška (merry go round, turnabout, turntable), okolišenje, kružni tok (roundabout). (various references)

Swedish

runt omkring (all-round, around), runt om (all round, around), rondell (rotary, roundabout, round-about, traffic circle), omväg (circuitous road, detour, round-about, roundabout way), karusell (carrousel, merry go round, merry-goround, merry-go-round, round-about, whirligig), indirekt (by indirection, circuitous, collateral, implicit, implied, indirect, indirectly, mediate, oblique). (various references)

Turkish

çepeçevre (all around, round). (various references)

Welsh

o amglych (about, around), cwmpasog (circuitous). (various references)

circum, circumducatur, circumducendi, circumducentibus, circumduci, circumduxerunt, circumduxissent, circumduxit. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roundabout.

-2 letters: outboard, outbound, runabout.

-3 letters: bourdon, bradoon, burnout, donator, odorant, onboard, orotund, outburn, rotunda, tandoor, tornado.

-4 letters: abound, around, auburn, bouton, burton, obtund, outran, outrun, ratoon, roband, rotund, rubato, rubout, runout, tabour, tundra, turban, unroot, untrod.

-5 letters: aboon, abort, about, adobo, adorn, baron, baton, board, boart, boron, bound, bourn, brand, brant, broad, brood, brunt, bundt.

+1 letter: roundabouts.

+4 letters: roundaboutness.