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roundabout
[ adjective round-uh-bout, round-uh-bout; noun round-uh-bout ]
adjective
- circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
Synonyms: ,
- (of clothing) cut circularly at the bottom; having no tails, train, or the like.
noun
- a short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
- British. a merry-go-round.
- a circuitous or indirect road, method, etc.
- Chiefly British. traffic circle.
roundabout
/ ˈʊԻəˌʊ /
noun
- a revolving circular platform provided with wooden animals, seats, etc, on which people ride for amusement; merry-go-round
- a road junction in which traffic streams circulate around a central island US and Canadian nametraffic circle
- an informal name for boring mill
adjective
- indirect or circuitous; devious
adverb
- on all sides
spectators standing round about
- approximately
at round about 5 o'clock
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of roundabout1
Example Sentences
The Liverpool victory parade will set off from Allerton Maze and travel north on Queens Drive towards the Fiveways roundabout and Rocket flyover.
Home to about 3,000 people, a few shops, two roundabouts and a tiny hospital, Streaky Bay is an idyllic beach town.
Over drinks in a curved booth at the Polo Lounge on a March afternoon, the Gilroy brothers reminisced about the roundabout way they all wound up in the family business: Hollywood.
In a roundabout way, his schoolfriend Chulwoo Lee agrees: "He had this delusion he could save the nation from communist threats, but I have no sympathy for him; he has jeopardised our democracy."
The concept for his story in 2020 came from Cwmbran being a new town, where "often linking houses with roundabouts is the easiest way to build".
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