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say it: rownd
round is a noun, verb, adjective and adverb meaning "a charge of ammunition for a single shot". It is pronounced /ˈɹaʊnd/ — rownd. It carries 25 recorded senses.
a charge of ammunition for a single shot
(often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
“the doctor goes on his rounds first thing every morning”
“the postman's rounds”
“we enjoyed our round of the local bars”
plural
the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
“a round of golf takes about 4 hours”
the course along which communications spread
“the story is going the rounds in Washington”
a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
“he ordered a second round”
a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
any circular or rotating mechanism
“the machine punched out metal circles”
(of sounds) full and rich
“orotund tones”
“the rotund and reverberating phrase”
“pear-shaped vowels”
(mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
“in round numbers”
mathematics
from beginning to end; throughout
“It rains all year round on Skye”
“frigid weather the year around”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for round come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.