round about
round about adverb: in an opposite direction.
Adverb
round about (not comparable)
Prepositional phrase
- At a point or time approximately equal to.
- Nevertheless, the modern outside cylinder 2-6-0 may be said to have had its beginnings on the G.N.R. and G.W.R. round about 1911.1945 November and December, H. C. Casserley, “Random Reflections on British Locomotive Types—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 318–319
round about meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
round about in Hindi
- round about, around, nearby
- आजू-बाजू ājū-bājū
round about in Tamil
- ஏறக்குறைய, ஏறத்தாழ, சுற்று வளைவான, சுற்றுவளைவான
round about in Malayalam
- about, around, approximately
- ഏകദേശം, ഉദ്ദേശം, സുമാർ, അടുത്ത്, ഏറെക്കുറെ, മുക്കാലും
round about in Kannada
- ಸುತ್ತುಬಳಸಿದ, ನೇರವಲ್ಲದ
More languagesFewer languages
- round about in Sanskrit
- परितस् parítas
Questions about round about
- What does round about mean?
- Round about means in an opposite direction.
- What is round about in Hindi?
- Round about in Hindi is आजू-बाजू (ājū-bājū). See Round about meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is round about?
- Round about can be an adverb or a prepositional phrase.
Words near round about in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: round about (page history and authors); आजू-बाजू (Hindi) (page history and authors); round about (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); round about (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); round about (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); परितस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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