around
pronunciation
How to pronounce around in British English:
UK [əˈraʊnd]
How to pronounce around in American English:
US [əˈraʊnd]
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- Adverb:
- in the area or vicinity
- by a circular or circuitous route
- to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- in a circle or circular motion
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- to a particular destination either specified or understood
- all around or on all sides
- in circumference
- from beginning to end; throughout
Word Origin
- around
- around: [14] Around was formed in Middle English from the prefix a- ‘on’ and the noun round (perhaps influenced by the Old French phrase a la reonde ‘in the round, roundabout’). It was slow to usurp existing forms such as about – it does not occur in Shakespeare or the 1611 translation of the Bible – and it does not seem to have become strongly established before the end of the 17th century. The adverb and preposition round may be a shortening of around.=> round
- around (adv.)
- c. 1300, "in circumference," from phrase on round. Rare before 1600. In sense of "here and there with no fixed direction" it is 1776, American English (properly about). Of time, from 1888. To have been around "gained worldly experience" is from 1927, U.S. colloquial.
Synonym
Example
- 1. He grew up in and around london .
- 2. Many excel at moving goods and money around .
- 3. Around 30 people were rescued yesterday .
- 4. Planets are plentiful around other stars .
- 5. So did other guys around him .