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Roundabout
//ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
"[S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room."
- 2 Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
"The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question."
Adjective
- 1 deviating from a straight course wordnet
- 2 marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct wordnet
Noun
- 1 A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-England, New-Zealand, UK, US, especially, sometimes
- 2 a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement wordnet
- 3 A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus. British
- 4 a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island wordnet
- 5 A fairground carousel.
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- 6 A detour.
- 7 A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- 8 A round dance. archaic
Verb
- 1 To play on a roundabout (carousel)
- 2 To travel round roundabouts
- 3 To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
Etymology
Etymology 1
From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Etymology 2
From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Etymology 3
From round + about [from early 20th c.].
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