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General dictionaries General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. around: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. around: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. around: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. around: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. around: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. around: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Around, around: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. around: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. around: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. around: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. around: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. around: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Around, around: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. around: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. around: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. around: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. around: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  18. Around (album), Around (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. around: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  20. Around: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  21. around: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  22. around: Rhymezone [home, info]
  23. around: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  24. around: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  25. around: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. around: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  27. around: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  28. around: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  29. around: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  30. around: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  31. Around: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info]
  32. around: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. around: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. around: Idioms [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. around: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (around)

adverb:  in circumference ("The trunk is ten feet around")
adverb:  by a circular or circuitous route ("He came all the way around the base")
adverb:  in a circle or circular motion ("The wheels are spinning around")
adverb:  to a particular destination either specified or understood ("She came around to see me")
adverb:  in the area or vicinity ("Hanging around")
adverb:  from beginning to end; throughout ("Frigid weather the year around")
adverb:  all around or on all sides ("Dirty clothes lying around (or about)")
adverb:  in or to a reversed position or direction ("Suddenly she turned around")
adverb:  to or among many different places or in no particular direction ("News gets around (or about)")
adverb:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct ("Weighs around a hundred pounds")

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Phrases that include around:   look around, mess around, play around, stick around, come around, more...

Words similar to around:   about, approximately, roughly, round, some, close to, just about, more or less, near, or so, more...


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