- having a shape like a circle or a ball
- a round 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
- a coin with a round hole in the centre
- The tower was perfectly round.
- They sat at a large round table.
- having a curved shape
- the round green hills of Donegal
- Put both the surname and publication date in round brackets.
- She had a small mouth and round pink cheeks.
- Choose shoes with a flat sole and round toes.
- [only before noun] a round figure or amount is one that is given as a whole number, usually one ending in 0
- 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.
- The total was a round $30 million in Australian dollars.
Word OriginMiddle English: from the Old French stem round-, from a variant of Latin rotundus ‘rotund’.
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