ring-around-the-rosy

1. 1.

   a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat

   Synonymsring-around-a-rosyring-a-rosy

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Questions about ring-around-the-rosy

What does ring-around-the-rosy mean?

ring-around-the-rosy means "a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat".

How many syllables are in ring-around-the-rosy?

ring-around-the-rosy has 6 syllables: rin-g-a-round--the--ro-sy. The stress falls on "rin". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪŋɚˈaʊnðɚˈoʊzi/.

What is another word for ring-around-the-rosy?

Close synonyms include ring-around-a-rosy, ring-a-rosy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ring-around-the-rosy a common word?

ring-around-the-rosy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.